Aditi Mishra·3d agogRPC, explained like you're calling a function on another computerWhat it is, how it works under the hood, and when plain REST is still the better choice
Aditi Mishra·5d agoWhat actually happens inside a database when you hit savePages, memory, the write-ahead log, B-trees and LSM trees, MVCC, and the query planner, in plain words
Aditi Mishra·6d agoLoad balancers, explained like you’ll actually need themLayer 4 vs Layer 7, the algorithms in plain words, health checks, and how to pick one without overthinking itA response icon1A response icon1
Aditi Mishra·Nov 6SaaS isn’t dead. The cheap version of it just got very cheap.A data team replaced a lot of their $150k Looker use with an afternoon HTML host. Here is what that story actually says about build vs buy.A response icon4A response icon4
Aditi Mishra·Nov 4AI can now prove your code is safe, not just test itAnthropic used an AI to write math proofs for 123 open-source libraries. Here is what that means in plain words, and where it stops.
Aditi Mishra·Nov 2The code on GitHub was clean. The package you installed wasn’t.What the LiteLLM 1.107.0 attack teaches about trusting AI dependencies
Aditi Mishra·Nov 1AI can port a compiler in days. Keeping it correct is the real work.What Cloudflare’s Rust port of TypeScript teaches any team using AI for a big migration.A response icon2A response icon2
Aditi Mishra·Oct 30Why the AI remembers your chat: the KV cache, explained simplyThe hidden memory that makes chatbots fast, why it eats so much GPU memory, and the operating system trick that fixed the waste.A response icon1A response icon1
Aditi Mishra·Oct 28You Can Outsource the Typing, Not the UnderstandingWhen AI writes the code and AI reviews it, someone still has to know what ships. Three ideas from this month, and the honest pushback.
Aditi Mishra·Oct 26Every layer in a transformer is a memory. Here’s how much each can hold.A cache-style way to think about linear layers, MLPs and attention. Plus the numbers from Alex Wang’s viral post, and why some people push…A response icon2A response icon2