Hey, I am Yashaswiaka Pixperk

    Backend engineer building distributed systems that actually scale

    Building stuff in Go, Rust & TypeScript. Obsessed with quality in everything I own.

    Go
    Rust
    TypeScript
    Next.js
    React
    PostgreSQL
    Redis
    Go
    Rust
    TypeScript
    Next.js
    React
    PostgreSQL
    Redis
    Go
    Rust
    TypeScript
    Next.js
    React
    PostgreSQL
    Redis
    Go
    Rust
    TypeScript
    Next.js
    React
    PostgreSQL
    Redis
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    What I'm up to

    /now

    A snapshot of what I'm focused on at this moment in time, random thoughts, and digital sticky notes from my workspace.

    Current Project

    PixTorrent

    BitTorrent protocol implementation with tracker and swarm coordination.

    RedisGoP2P NetworkDistributed Systems
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    Reading List

    • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

      Martin Kleppmann · book

    • How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

      Discord Engineering Blog · article

    • Rust for Rustaceans

      Jon Gjengset · book

    Random Thoughts

    Why are monitoring systems so complex yet so critical?

    The best architecture decisions are usually the boring ones. Flashy tech rarely equals stable production.

    Complete that project I've been putting off...

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    Current Focus

    Distributed Systems and writing cool Libs

    Learning

    Raft protocol

    Coffee Count

    3 cups

    Latest Blog Post

    lowkey: Building a Distributed Lock Service That Actually Works

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    Deep dive into building a CP-consistent distributed lock service using Raft consensus, fencing tokens, and lease-based locks. Achieves 3.24ms p50 latency.

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