Apoorva Srivastava ☯️

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

It's a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt. You'll fail to question the element of luck, making you think that you have the golden touch.

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

How is @Apple repair process this bad?! Gotta give up my phone for 3–7 days, get all data wiped, no loaner provided, and since it’s eSIM-only, I need to have another eSIM phone.

All for a cracked glass back.

Data Backup? Pay for iCloud or use a Mac (Windows backup is awful)

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

This guy looks like the surface of Mars. Intelligent design or evolution?

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

https://t.co/GVSpr534YM 🌐

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

My girlfriend was having trouble prioritising her problems so I vibe coded a simple calculator for her to check if the problem is worth it 😆 Try it out in the first reply👇🔗

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

Note to self:

Within a consumer group, different partitions of a topic are always read by different consumers.

T1P0 > CG1C1 and T1P0 > CG1C2 is not possible.

However,

T1P0 > CG1C1 and T1P0 > CG2C1 is possible because consumer groups are different.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

A product that (almost) everyone uses from mid-sized tech companies and up but I rarely hear talked about: Grafana

In The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey, it had more mentions than Cursor, and dominates as the answer to "how do you turn information into graphs"

This is Grafana:

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

@iliekcomputers 10/10 ragebait

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

Huh

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

I absolutely love the auto drivers that have their UPI QR codes as their wallpaper. So efficient.

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

https://t.co/GpiPJLDDRC

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

Came across an interesting problem while building something recently.

How to find the closest airport to a given place on Earth as fast as possible? ✈️

Though it would be simple. Turns out it wasn’t.

Wrote an article explaining all about it :) 🧵⬇️

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

Building SaaS with the bros is the only thing that can fix me rn.

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t get improved.

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

@ShivamSouravJha @GaurangGujrati Yeh kaun hai? 👀

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

Source: Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems ~
Book by Martin Kleppmann

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

Amazon found that just a 100ms increase in response time can reduce sales by 1% 🧵

[Apoorva Srivastava ☯️ @3__14rate]

Because extreme tail latencies are often caused by random, uncontrollable factors.

Fixing them is hard, and the benefit isn’t worth the cost.

The takeaway:
📌 Optimize for most users, especially the high-value ones.
📌 Don’t burn time chasing every last millisecond in the tail.