Event-Driven Architecture: Lessons from Production
What I learned building event-driven services at work — message ordering, idempotency, and the patterns that actually matter.
pawan.log / field notes
Stories from inside
the machine.
Notes on backend engineering, useful tools, production lessons, and the occasional rabbit hole. Written to make the next hard problem a little easier.
My Terminal Setup in 2026
The tools, aliases, and workflows I use daily as a junior engineer to stay productive in the terminal.
Understanding Database Indexing — The Practical Version
A no-fluff guide to database indexes: when to add them, when to skip them, and how to think about query performance.