Nihal

Developer | Learning, shipping & breaking stuff | Sharing what I learn, one midnight at a time 🌙

[Nihal @codebymidnight]

I stopped posting.
Not because X doesn’t work, but because focus does.

Finally placed 🔥
as a Forward Deployed Engineer.

Now documenting my journey toward a remote/global role🚀
DevOps • Cloud • AI automation.

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@theemkeey Done!

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@askwhykartik How long do you think this era will last

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@TimJayas Can I please use your payments service in my app of 500 users?

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@justbyte_ Caching + a billion servers everywhere

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@simpreetkaur_19 Let’s connect!

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@aryanlabde Context windows is a huge pain

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Scenario: your app suddenly gets massive traffic.
Payments, emails, analytics everything triggers at once.

Direct service-to-service calls = chaos.

Kafka acts as a buffer:
events go into a stream → services consume independently.

Systems stay resilient even under heavy load.

Finally understood Kafka’s real purpose.

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@Anubhavhing Ok give me idea now

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@justbyte_ What about marketing

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@_kunalankur_ Let’s connect

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@dev_maims Errors

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@DINESHVERM578 @404not_utkarsh @X Let’s connect!

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@psomkar1 Bruh I’d be unemployed if it was not for ai😭

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@VadimStrizheus How many hours you work bro

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@mange_manali Being jobless but no time to upskill

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Your app suddenly goes viral.
Traffic spikes. Database latency increases.

Instead of scaling the DB immediately → cache hot data in Redis.

Same data. Faster reads. Lower load.

Small architectural decision, huge impact.

Learnt it the hard way :(

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@GeekyAkshat04 @neerajjj6785 @X Sure !

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@RoxanaLimban Thanks!

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Grateful for hitting 50 followers! Thanks for being part of the journey! 🙏 Excited to connect with more like-minded folks. #Milestone #LetsConnect

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@apurvChy Thankyou!