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Featured·System Design·Apr 18, 2026
Building a Live Cricket Streaming Platform That Doesn't Crash at Toss Time
How do you serve 15 million concurrent viewers when Virat Kohli walks to the crease? A deep dive into the control plane: pre-scaling, admission control, heartbeats, and graceful degradation.
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Bought My Small Home at 21
A short note on what it actually means to own something before most people figure out what they want.
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Fraud Detection Runs Inside the Payment, Not After It
At Paytm/Razorpay/PhonePe scale, fraud is synchronous — sub-100ms feature fetch, model score, rules, and a decision before money moves.
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How Payment Reconciliation Systems Actually Work
Every payment system has a reconciliation layer nobody talks about. Here's what it does, why it breaks, and how the good ones are designed.
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College Placements Are Not a Safety Net
The placement cell will not save you. Neither will the brand on your degree. A direct take on where engineers actually find leverage.
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