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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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🚂 Temporal — Under the Hood

~36 min

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.


💸 1B Payments/Day - TigerBeetle & PostgreSQL

~37 min

Can one bank absorb India's entire daily UPI volume? A first-principles design exercise with real benchmarks: TigerBeetle vs PostgreSQL, traced with eBPF down to the io_uring and fsync calls.


🏃 Running 101

~13 min

Discover the journey and achievements of an avid runner who completed a 100km challenge in 30 days, reduced BMI from 24.1 to 22.3, and improved their running pace and resting heart rate. Learn about their strategies for music, nutrition, hydration, and more to enhance your own running performance.


🪲 The Tiger Style

~20 min

Tiger Style is a coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience. Inspired by the practices of TigerBeetle, it focuses on building robust, efficient, and maintainable software through disciplined engineering.