Nirbhay

How was July : -Joined Target -Along with BE, diving into devops, RAG and agents -Regular to gym -Read lot of docs bcz my product has 250+ microservices -Badminton and cricket on weekends with team -Met friends whoever in Bangalore -Finished a book

One way to avoid getting overwhelmed when you are designing a system is to approach it with a structure/mental model. Here's a simple one I follow... Think of any system as having 2 separate paths: a read path and a write path. Your database or storage layer sits at the center, and each path has its own set of problems and its own toolkit to solve them. The write path is about durability and throughput. You are almost always choosing from the same set of levers: a message queue to absorb bursts, write-ahead logging for durability, batching to reduce I/O, and async processing to keep the critical path thin. The read path is about latency and scale. Again, a fixed toolkit - caching at various layers (CDN, app-level, query-level), read replicas to offload the primary, denormalizing or pre-computing expensive queries, and pagination or cursor-based traversal to avoid full scans. Once you start seeing these as two separate concerns, you stop designing a system and start answering two smaller questions: what does the write path need? What does the read path need? Then you wire them together through storage. This 'framework' (if I can call it that) is not just useful during discussions, but also helps you reason through production systems, especially when you are building an understanding, trying to optimize an existing flow, debugging latency spikes, or planning for scale. Hope this helps.

@Adityakrsaha Go for Mercedes with these new regulations - the best time to start f1 with Mercedes. It’s definitely Mercedes’s year

Started watching F1 midway through last year after watching F1 Movie, and I'm yet to select a team to support. How did you guys end up picking your favorite?

@Abhishek9503_ @Target Congratulations Abhishek, photo looks cool ✨

Starting my career with @Target as an SDE-1

@aakashgupta I made a switch at the minima of this graph in the timeframe shown, anyways times are tough 🙇🙇

And they said software engineering was dead 🤦

@amuldotexe Ah, you were in target, never realised. Congratulations

onbv 🙏🏻

@MasterMuskan22 @saka_codes Congratulations Muskhan ✨✨ !! You deserved it

@saka_codes Thank you so much bhai 🫂❤️

> started sunday with a bug resolution > verified on postman and pushed 🚀 > saw post on LinkedIn of my brother @MasterMuskan22 getting into Visa and it's process, huge congrats bro!

@Abhishek9503_ Lucky bro, me who is sitting here monitoring logs and re deploying prod applications because aaag lagi padi hai idhar 🥹

Just loved this👀🤤

@Fourierzz Yea ✨✨✨

@Nickky_729 I am hoping that one idea would definitely cross our minds which will fit your parameters.

Every time I come up with any idea to ship my friend @Nickky_729 be like, is this idea materialised ? , and spots some loopholes and that bare idea goes to the sink and loop continues 😞 #SoftwareDevelopment

The things I care about - revenue and whether there already are people trying out this idea and how deep the idea can penetrate in society following the problem it’s trying to solve Honestly, we don’t have much time and efforts - use them where it truly matters and is rewarding

@Bhuvneshdot 😅

AI agents are fully autonomous, even reveal secrets autonomously.

Its always fun meeting with GenZs.

@Bhuvneshdot Thanks Bhuvnesh and everyone, we learn each time we meet from others experiences !!

@Fourierzz 🇮🇳

Happy Independence Day 🫡🎆🇮🇳

@sageadvik Gpt 5 pro takes hell lot of time thinking 🤯

whats the best model you use for coding?

@rudythetechy Seems Pune 🤔

Walk ✅

@RRK_coder I too tried after 4 5 months today 😀, it was 111 in first attempt

broke my personal best after ages 😋

@abhisheknaironx Bike plus car, I just divide the money in multiple accounts, invest. If I get to see money equivalent to car, I will buy the next day 🥹

You just landed a 60LPA job, What's gonna be your first spend?

@KadgeRupesh Idk but I feel you are using Amdocs parking space 😀

Taking extra precautions so I don’t end up playing hide & seek with my own bike in this hinge parking maze.😂 Who else’s a victim of this?

Tomorrow I will be meeting few dev folks at morning breakfast in Bangalore. If you're interested and wants to join. Dm me.