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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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28/05/2019 6 min read

Data Minimization and Retention for Sensitive Data: A Website Checklist

Website checklist for minimising and retaining high-harm personal data under GDPR Article 5, DPDP section 8 and Rules…
15/05/2019 10 min read

Alerting That Works: Signal, Noise, and On-Call SLOs

Alerting That Works pages you for real user pain, not every small blip. Learn how to cut noise,…
12/05/2019 12 min read

Read/Write Separation: Scaling Reads with Replicas

Read/write separation: routing reads to replicas with the staleness audit, replica routing mechanics, replication lag as the governing…
01/04/2019 10 min read

Error Budgets: Balancing Reliability, Velocity, and Product Risk

Error Budgets tell you how much failure you can spend. Learn how to balance reliability, ship speed, and…
14/03/2019 7 min read

Cookie Banner Best Practices That Improve Consent Rates

Cookie banner practices that raise informed consent rates: equal reject, clear copy, Preference Center design, geo rules, and…
10/03/2019 12 min read

Search Engines in System Design: When and How to Add Search

Search engine system design: search vs database queries, when to add elasticsearch, the indexing pipeline that keeps the…
25/02/2019 10 min read

SLOs for Backend Engineers: Defining, Measuring, and Enforcing Service Objectives

SLOs for Backend Engineers turn user pain into a clear number. Learn how to define, measure, and enforce…
19/02/2019 9 min read

How to Handle DSARs with OneTrust: Access, Correction, and Erasure

Configure OneTrust Privacy Rights Automation for access, correction, and erasure requests, with identity checks, TDD discovery, portal responses,…
09/02/2019 2 min read

Best Payment Wallet In India

Google entered the market during Q4 of 2017. In order to gain grounds, they rewarded referrer as well…
20/01/2019 10 min read

SLIs Explained: Choosing the Right Service Level Indicators

SLIs Explained shows which signals match real user pain. Learn how to pick indicators for latency, errors, and…
20/01/2019 9 min read

IAM for Backend Engineers: Roles, Policies, and Least-Privilege Design

IAM for Backend Engineers shows how roles and policies limit blast radius. Learn least privilege, short sessions, and…
05/01/2019 12 min read

Blob and Object Storage: Storing Files at Scale

Object storage explained: the flat key-space and HTTP model, blob vs object naming, object vs block vs file…
26/12/2018 10 min read

gRPC vs REST: Protocol Buffers, Streaming, and Production Trade-offs

gRPC vs REST compares protocol buffers, streaming, and JSON APIs so you can pick a contract that stays…
10/12/2018 11 min read

Tail Latency: Why P99 Matters More Than Averages in Distributed Systems

Tail Latency is the slow slice users actually feel. Learn why averages lie, how fan-out multiplies delay, and…