Technical Writing

Things I've written.

Long-form pieces on systems engineering, economics, and what five years of running infrastructure at scale actually teaches you.

• Systems2 min read

  How I Supercharged My gRPC IPC with UNIX Domain Sockets

  Replacing TCP localhost with UNIX sockets for 60-70% latency reduction — benchmarks, code, and gotchas.

• Tutorial2 min read

  Learning Python by Building a Discord Bot

  A practical roadmap for beginners — skip tutorial hell, start building with discord.py, and learn what you need when you need it.

• Systems1 min read

  Compile Time vs Runtime: The Tradeoff Nobody Talks About

  Rust shifts responsibility from the runtime to the developer. That's not free — but the payoff is worth it.

• Product6 min read

  What Building a Community of 50,000 Taught Me About Software

  User behavior, feedback loops, and the things no computer science curriculum covers.

• Databases7 min read

  Six Databases in Five Years — A Story of Real Failures

  JSON → MongoDB → Redis → PostgreSQL → libSQL → custom cache. Each migration had a reason.

• Economy Design6 min read

  Designing a Virtual Economy for 50,000 People

  Inflation, exploit prevention, reward psychology — applied behavioral economics at Discord scale.

• Systems5 min read

  Why I Chose Rust for the Financial Layer of My Discord Bot

  GC pauses, memory safety, and why Axum handles real-money transactions for 50,000 users.

• Essay3 min read

  How I Turned a Discord Server into a Career-Changing Opportunity

  From clicking 'Join Server' to building a distributed system for 50,000 users — the origin story of Worldwide.