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Imran M

Engineering Leader & AI Architect

Engineering leader and AI architect with 13+ years of experience building scalable platforms and AI-powered systems. I write about Applied AI, Agentic AI, software architecture, cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and the practical side of building reliable technology at scale.

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22/09/2022 4 min read

Mastering Asynchronous JavaScript & Event Loop

Executive Summary: Blocking the main thread on fetches and timers makes UIs feel stuck and unresponsive. I cover…
19/09/2022 10 min read

Health Checks in Distributed Systems: Liveness, Readiness, and Dependency Probes

Health Checks in Distributed Systems tell a platform if a task can serve traffic. Learn liveness, readiness, and…
18/09/2022 11 min read

Generics in Java: Type Safety, Bounded Types, and Wildcards

Executive Summary: Java generics give you type-safe, reusable code with no casts. Here I cover generic classes and…
17/09/2022 4 min read

How to Embed a PDF in WordPress

Sharing PDFs on your WordPress website is an effective way to provide resources, reports and other valuable documents…
07/09/2022 16 min read

Python Logging Tutorial: Best Practices and Examples

Nine logging practices ranked by impact, each with a wrong example, a right example, and a way to…
23/08/2022 12 min read

Retry with Backoff and Jitter: Retrying Without Triggering Retry Storms

Retry with exponential backoff explained: backoff and jitter pacing, the retry storm math, retry budgets, what is safe…
22/08/2022 10 min read

Cron Jobs in Distributed Systems: Scheduling, Idempotency, and Missed Runs

Cron Jobs in Distributed Systems must run once, survive restarts, and stay idempotent. Learn locks, missed runs, jitter,…
14/08/2022 8 min read

Choosing the Right Collection: Performance and Trade-offs

Executive Summary: Choosing a Java collection comes down to access pattern, ordering needs, key types, and data size.…
03/08/2022 12 min read

Python Project Structure and pyproject.toml: A Practical Layout

A layout that works from the first commit: src directory, one pyproject.toml, an installable package, tests, and a…
25/07/2022 11 min read

Query Optimization for Backend Engineers: Indexes, Execution Plans, and Real-World Tuning

Query Optimization for Backend Engineers stops slow SQL from stalling APIs. Learn indexes, plans, and safe fixes you…
10/07/2022 10 min read

Collections Framework Part 2: Map and Queue

Executive Summary: Java Maps store values by unique keys and Queues control processing order. I cover HashMap, LinkedHashMap,…
06/07/2022 13 min read

Python Type Hints and mypy: A Practical Guide

Type hints document what your code expects, and mypy checks them before anything runs. Learn the syntax, the…
03/07/2022 3 min read

Inheritance And Prototype Chain in JavaScript

Introduction JavaScript has positioned itself as an integral part of web development, fueling both client-side and server-side operations.…
27/06/2022 4 min read

Maximizing Efficiency in React with Memoization

Most performance work comes down to making the app do less: fewer renders, fewer recalculations, less memory. In…