I’m Pratik. As a software engineer, I enjoy tackling both technical challenges and everyday problems. My passion lies in finding solutions and making improvements where possible, whether that means optimizing AWS costs, enhancing server response times, or streamlining processes.
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What actually happens when you start a Temporal workflow? We trace every SQL statement, count the event-history nodes, and then watch Absurd — a 5-table, single-SQL-file system — do the same job with one-fifth the queries and twenty-times the throughput.
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