Notes & Writing

Reading notes & thoughts

Notes from system design papers, cloud infrastructure patterns, and engineering lessons from production systems.

Paper Notes8 min read

Notes on Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store

My reading notes on the 2007 Amazon paper that introduced eventual consistency, consistent hashing, and tunable CAP trade-offs.

Distributed Systems6 min read

What building object storage at OCI taught me about fault tolerance

Lessons from working on enterprise-grade distributed storage — the gap between theory and what production systems actually need.

Paper Notes7 min read

Notes on The Google File System

Reading notes on Google's foundational distributed filesystem paper — chunk size, replication, and master node bottlenecks that shaped a generation of storage systems.