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Engineering breakdowns, architecture decisions, and lessons from building production systems — written for developers who want the real story.

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Algorithms & Data Structures

Study algorithmic patterns and data structure strategies for performant applications.

Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure topics for deployment, observability, and resilient production environments.

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Binary Search

Aug 14, 2025

Learn how Binary Search works in JavaScript with examples, time complexity analysis, and practical use cases.

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Divide And Conquer Pattern

Aug 21, 2025

Understanding the Divide And Conquer problem-solving pattern in JavaScript.

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Understanding the Frequency Counter Pattern in JavaScript

Jul 24, 2025

A deep dive into the Frequency Counter pattern with examples and a JavaScript implementation.

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Linear Search

Aug 7, 2025

Linear Search

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Multiple Pointers

Jul 30, 2025

Understanding the Multiple Pointers pattern in JavaScript.

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Recursion

Aug 28, 2025

Recursion in JavaScript and algorithmic problem solving.

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Sliding Window

Sep 6, 2025

Understanding the Sliding Window pattern in JavaScript

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K3s on Raspberry Pis

Sep 7, 2025

Guide to setting up K3s on Raspberry Pi clusters.

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Hardware List and Costs

Sep 13, 2025

Detailed hardware list and cost breakdown for my homelab Kubernetes cluster.

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