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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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03/07/2021 10 min read

Practice: Build a CLI Calculator in Java

Executive Summary: This practice project builds a single-file Java CLI calculator with one-shot and interactive modes and switch-expression…
29/06/2021 3 min read

CSS Blend Modes for Modern Web Design

CSS blend modes let you combine layers, images and colors in the browser the way you would in…
07/06/2021 14 min read

Distributed Locks: Mutual Exclusion Across Machines

Distributed locks explained: leases and TTLs as mutual exclusion across machines; the Redis distributed lock and its failover…
30/05/2021 8 min read

Arrays and Strings in Java (with StringBuilder)

Executive Summary: Java arrays are fixed-length containers with helpers in java.util.Arrays, and Strings are immutable. I cover creating,…
18/05/2021 6 min read

New and Useful Features of HTML5 for Modern Web Development

HTML5 added a long list of features that changed how we build for the web. These new and…
09/05/2021 8 min read

Methods in Java: Parameters, Return Values, and Overloading

Executive Summary: Java methods are defined by a signature and a body, and Java passes everything by value,…
26/04/2021 4 min read

Event Loop & Callback Queue

How the JavaScript event loop and callback queue work, and how to structure your code so the main…
20/04/2021 6 min read

Sensitive Data in Analytics and Marketing Tools: What You Must Not Collect

Keep health, orientation, government IDs, and other high-harm attributes out of pixels, CDPs, and Customer Match: GDPR Article…
05/04/2021 12 min read

Fault-Tolerant Systems: Redundancy, Failover, and Failure Detection

Fault tolerant system design: failure models from crash to byzantine, redundancy and the N+1 arithmetic, the failover playbook,…
21/03/2021 9 min read

Control Flow in Java: if, switch, Loops, and Modern switch Expressions

Executive Summary: Java control flow covers sequence, branching, loops, and switch. Here I show when to use each…
07/03/2021 9 min read

Variables, Primitive Types, and Operators in Java

Executive Summary: Java variables are statically typed, and the language has eight primitive types with fixed sizes on…
21/02/2021 4 min read

Best Cryptocurrency App In India

Since the Indian market is still in its early phase, the service of the crypto exchanges are not…
13/02/2021 8 min read

Installing JDK, Setting Up IntelliJ IDEA, and Your First Java Program

Executive Summary: I’ll set up a Java development environment: install JDK 21 from a distribution like Eclipse Temurin,…
01/02/2021 12 min read

Distributed Transactions: Two-Phase Commit and Its Alternatives

Distributed transactions explained: two-phase commit step by step, the 2pc coordinator failure that leaves participants in doubt, consensus-backed…