K Srinivas Rao
@sriniously
I teach backend stuff. yt - https://www.youtube.com/@sriniously ph - http://producthunt.com/@srini53168
I think one of the best career moves that I ever pulled was getting a mac mini, it just sits there on my table. No fans spinning loudly. No RGB lights demanding attention. Just a small aluminum box that gets things done. I don't think about it much, which is exactly the point.…
Success, no matter how small or big, has a way of removing the constraints that once kept us stable. The higher you climb, the thinner the air gets, and it becomes easier to lose sight of who you actually are beneath all the achievements and accolades. Your old college roommate…
When I first started coding I was this classic lone wolf developer who thought the best code came from quiet rooms and uninterrupted focus. I'd spend hours debugging something that was probably obvious to anyone else looking at it but I was too proud to ask for help. Then I…
You can't live a big life in a small environment.
Every breakthrough you've ever celebrated, every innovation that changed your life, every moment of clarity that shifted your perspective, none of it happened in isolation. Behind each discovery stands a chain of teachers, researchers, writers, and thinkers who chose to share…
Been thinking about this Cluely thing for a while now and honestly it's pretty fascinating, not because of what it does but because of what it reveals about us. Here's this 21 year old Roy Lee who got kicked out of Columbia for making a tool to cheat on coding interviews, and…
The real reason people from top universities succeed isn't just IQ. When you get into IIT or Harvard or MIT, you've already proven you can delay gratification for years. You studied when your friends partied. You chose hard classes when easy ones were available. You optimized for…
Good design is information architecture made visible. Every interface is a data structure that humans have to parse. When we build bad interfaces, we are forcing people to execute inefficient algorithms with their brains. Consider how memory works. Working memory can hold about…
PostgreSQL added JSON support in 2012 when everyone said relational databases were dead. They called it the wrong move. NoSQL was the future. Document databases would eat everything. Twelve years later, PostgreSQL's JSONB runs circles around most document databases. It's 15x…
Been researching about Loki versus ELK stack lately for my upcoming Go boilerplate playlist and after going through a ton of resources I realized it comes down to one thing, what do you value more, simplicity or power? ELK gives you everything. Elasticsearch handles search and…
PlanetScale's architecture shows something important about database scaling that most people miss. When YouTube hit the wall in 2010, the core issue was MySQL's single threaded replication, which forced every write to serialize through one thread, creating an inevitable…
The CAP theorem the way I see it now, is not JUST about choosing two out of three properties. It is about the fundamental impossibility of global truth in a networked world. When you really think about what consistency means across space and time, you start to see that the…
We built systems that we cannot see into. This is the core problem that observability tries to solve. When your service goes down at midnight, you need to know why. When response times spike during peak traffic, you need to understand what changed. When users complain about…
Between Claude Code and Cursor, the surface level difference is obvious. Claude Code lets you delegate entire workflows while Cursor keeps you in the driver's seat. Claude Code represents what I call the "delegation paradigm" where humans become orchestrators of AI capability.…