Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳

🍁 Witty Soul spiced up with a Tinge of Humour
👨🏻‍💻 Accelerating Inner-Loop DevProd @atlassian

[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

@Manice18heree Super talented dev, can vouch for him ^^

[Manice @Manice18heree]

Still looking for onsite opportunities in Bangalore

Open to Backend/Full-stack roles and happy to work across the stack.

If your team is hiring or you know someone I should talk to, please DM me!

Would really appreciate any leads or referrals

Resume attached — RTs welcome!

[Manice @Manice18heree]

So recently I was playing around with Go, and instead of making another traditional CRUD app to “learn stuff”…

I built a tiny highly available key-value cluster.

I kept hitting the same boredom loop: create table, write endpoints, ship a todo list, pretend I learned something. This time I wanted the uncomfortable questions:

How do nodes find each other without me pasting addresses forever?
How do strangers become a cluster?
How do writes survive when a node dies?
Who gets to be the leader, and what happens when they dont?
And the one that actually hurts in real life: what if one node is in India and another is in the USA, both behind NAT?

So I made go-distri (please dont judge with the name lol).

- HTTP on the outside for a simple KV API
- A hybrid registry for cold start — one URL, strangers can meet
- libp2p + a private Kademlia DHT so peers keep finding friends afterward
- A custom cluster handshake stream to exchange Raft/HTTP dial info
- Hashicorp Raft over plain TCP so the cluster actually agrees on data
- And for cross-country connectivity: Tailscale, so nodes advertise real dialable addresses instead of useless `127.0.0.1` / private LAN ghosts

That last part mattered more than I expected.

Discovery is not connectivity. A peer can show up in `/peers`, look alive, and still be unreachable from another country. The registry helps strangers meet. The DHT helps them keep finding friends. Raft helps them agree. Tailscale (or public IPs) is what makes the dial actually succeed across NATs.

The mental model I ended up with:

Registry = how strangers meet
DHT = how they keep finding friends
Tailscale = how they can actually reach each other
Raft = how they agree on the truth

It's not a product—just me exploring the kinds of problems distributed systems are built to solve.

(repo link in comments)

[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

The feeling when the imposter syndrome suddenly takes a 180 degree turn >>>

[Atlassian @Atlassian]

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We’ve entered into an agreement to acquire @browsercompany, the team behind @diabrowser and @arcinternet, to transform how work gets done in the AI era.

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[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

Coming out of comfort zone, to take up new challenges is the best thing ever.

You never know how things will turn out, but that’s what compels you to give your 100% into it.

[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

@earthcurated

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[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

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[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

@pjparties Bhai, queue ke jagah, flash sale build karna tha 😔👍

[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

@coldplay how is this a fair ticketing system?

[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

@bookmyshow seriously, get your servers scaled up.

[Soham Sarkar 🇮🇳 @errorinc0de]

What the heck is a flash sale even, physical event wala feel laane ke liye pehle server crash ho jaane do uske baad, queue mein daal denge 🤡