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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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15/11/2021 10 min read

Race Conditions in Backend Systems: Detection, Prevention, and Testing

Race Conditions in Backend Systems hide until load hits. Learn how to detect lost updates, block unsafe writes,…
18/10/2021 9 min read

Thread Safety in Backend Systems: Locks, Atomics, and Concurrency Patterns

Thread Safety in Backend Systems fails in quiet ways under real load. Learn locks, atomics, and patterns that…
17/10/2021 9 min read

Inheritance and Polymorphism in Java

Executive Summary: In Java, a subclass inherits from its parent, can override its methods, and runs the overridden…
11/10/2021 13 min read

Idempotency: Designing Operations That Survive Retries

Idempotency explained: operations that survive retries and duplicates, the idempotency key from client to dedup table, idempotent API…
02/10/2021 4 min read

Web Design with CSS Grid Layout

Web design has witnessed revolutionary innovations, and CSS Grid Layout is one of the vital advancements in this…
20/09/2021 11 min read

Connection Pooling Explained: Sizing, Timeouts, and Database Overload

Connection Pooling Explained for teams who see timeouts when load spikes hard. Learn pool size, wait limits, and…
18/09/2021 8 min read

Encapsulation, Access Modifiers, and Packages in Java

Executive Summary: Encapsulation in Java means keeping fields private and exposing behavior through methods that enforce the object’s…
04/09/2021 9 min read

Java Constructors and the this Keyword: Building Objects That Start Valid

Executive Summary: Java constructors initialize objects at creation, and good ones make invalid objects impossible. I cover classes…
15/08/2021 10 min read

Gradle for Java Projects: Builds, Tasks, and Kotlin DSL

Executive Summary: Gradle builds Java projects from a build.gradle.kts file using plugins, repositories, dependencies, and a toolchain that…
10/08/2021 3 min read

Permalink Issues & Fixes in Local WordPress Development

In the world of web development, WordPress is a popular platform that powers millions of websites across the…
09/08/2021 13 min read

The Saga Pattern: Distributed Transactions Without Two-Phase Commit

The saga pattern explained: long-lived business transactions as local steps with compensating transactions, orchestration vs choreography, the transactional…
01/08/2021 10 min read

Practice: Build a Number Guessing Game in Java

Executive Summary: This beginner project builds a Java number guessing game with Random, a Scanner input loop, replay,…
20/07/2021 10 min read

Maven for Java Projects: From pom.xml to Build Lifecycle

Executive Summary: Maven builds Java projects from a pom.xml that declares coordinates, dependencies, and plugins. I cover transitive…
16/07/2021 1 min read

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