01NOV 2026
Zero-downtime blue/green deploys with automatic rollback, for one VPS.
Go · Docker · Caddy · SQLite · Webhooks
Akash Singu
Computer Science Student | Systems & Backend Engineering
About
I build backend systems, think about distributed systems, and spend an unreasonable amount of time understanding how software behaves when it scales or fails.
Proof of Work
02AUG 2026
Real-time distributed sports telemetry platform.
Go · Kafka · Protobuf · PostgreSQL · Docker · Kubernetes
03AUG 2026
AST code quality detector & LLM refactoring filter.
Go · AST Parsing · CLI · Worker Pools
04MAY 2026
Custom BitTorrent client and Kademlia DHT.
Go · BitTorrent · Networking · Distributed Systems
05MAY 2026
Fault-tolerant distributed data processing engine with RPC state coordinator.
Go · Net/RPC · Distributed Computing · Fault Tolerance
06MAR 2026
Horizontally scalable WebSocket messaging cluster with Redis Pub/Sub broadcast.
Go · Redis Pub/Sub · PostgreSQL · Docker · Prometheus
07FEB 2026
Consistent hashing ring (Murmur3) with Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) durability.
Go · WAL · Murmur3 · Net/RPC · Cobra CLI
08MAY 2026
Terminal-first book library CLI backed by Google Drive with local LRU caching.
Go · Cobra CLI · Google Drive API · LRU Cache
Writing
All PostsMay 18, 2026 · 9 min read
Let's Explore Peer-To-Peer Networks — BitTorrent
Distributing massive files from a single server is an infrastructure bottleneck waiting to happen. In this deep dive, we explore raw P2P mechanics, BitTorrent architecture, piece selection algorithms, choking strategies, and decentralized DHT routing in Go.
Go · Distributed Systems · BitTorrent · P2P · Networking
Stack
- Languages
- Go · TypeScript · JavaScript · C++ · SQL
- Data
- PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · MongoDB · SQLite
- Infra
- Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · Caddy · Prometheus · Grafana · Git · GitHub Actions
- Web
- Next.js · React · Node.js · Express · Tailwind CSS
Contributions
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