A Personal Engineering Journal

Notes from the backend & beyond.

A personal engineering journal — long-form, first-principles explanations of the systems I'm learning to build. Backend engineering, cloud computing, AI/ML, electronics, and the strange territory between them.

24 backend modules 5 series in progress Updated regularly
The Collections

Featured series

Backend Engineering

Backend from First Principles

HTTP, routing, databases, caching, security — every primitive understood from the ground up. Framework-agnostic, concept-first.

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Cloud Deep Dives

AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability — production patterns explained without the marketing speak.

Coming soon

AI Explained

Transformers, embeddings, agents, RAG, evals — what's actually happening under the API call, and how to build with it.

Coming soon

Electronics Fundamentals

Voltage, current, op-amps, microcontrollers, PCB design. Bridging the gap between software and the physical world.

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