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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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01/06/2018 13 min read

Monitoring and Observability: Knowing What Your System Is Doing

Observability vs monitoring, drawn honestly: what observability is as a property, the three pillars (logs, metrics, traces) the…
30/05/2018 4 min read

Smartphone Innovation Ideas To Simplify Our Lives

Smartphone companies are in a spec race where their upgraded phones have more CPU power, RAM, storage, screen…
18/05/2018 2 min read

Why Google bought Motorola only to sell it within 3 years?

Google cleverly executed an intriguing game The perplexing acquisition and subsequent sale of Motorola by Google caught the…
05/05/2018 9 min read

Adobe Campaign Client Console Tour: Explorer, Campaigns, and Navigation

A practical tour of the Adobe Campaign client console: connecting, the home page, the Explorer, lists, filters and…
28/04/2018 12 min read

Database Sharding: Partitioning Strategies, Hot Keys, and Rebalancing

Database sharding explained: range, hash, directory, and geographic strategies, choosing a shard key, hot shards, cross-shard queries, and…
16/04/2018 2 min read

Top 10 Android Apps That Turn Your Phone into a Hacking Device

Ever wondered that you can turn your android smartphone to a hacking device ? Here I present Top 10…
14/04/2018 10 min read

Adobe Campaign v6 to v7 Migration: What Changes and How to Plan

Plan an Adobe Campaign v7 migration from v6.02: test copy, passwords, security zones, postupgrade checks, SQLData rewrites and…
25/03/2018 9 min read

Adobe Campaign Classic vs Adobe Campaign Standard: Which One Fits Your Team?

Campaign Classic vs Standard compared on data model, scripting, hosting, APIs and team skills, with a worked decision…
10/03/2018 10 min read

What Is Adobe Campaign Classic? Architecture and Core Concepts

I explain how Adobe Campaign Classic architecture works: the database, the server modules, the client console and the…
24/02/2018 13 min read

Database Replication: Leader-Follower, Multi-Leader, and Leaderless

Database replication explained: leader-follower, multi-leader, and leaderless topologies, synchronous vs asynchronous trade-offs, replication lag, and the failover failure…
15/01/2018 10 min read

CORS Explained for Backend Engineers: Preflight, Credentials, and Security Pitfalls

CORS Explained for Backend Engineers covers origins, preflight, and credentials. Learn which headers to set, which to avoid,…
23/12/2017 12 min read

Cache Invalidation Strategies: Purges, Versioning, and Write-Through Choices

Cache invalidation strategies compared: delete-on-write, versioned cache keys, the cache purge, and write-through vs write-behind (plus the delivery…
20/11/2017 10 min read

CSRF Protection: Tokens, SameSite Cookies, and Modern Browser Defenses

CSRF Protection stops forged state changes from other sites. Learn tokens, SameSite cookies, and where browser defaults still…
02/11/2017 3 min read

Xiaomi launches Redmi Y1 and Redmi Y1 Lite at Rs 8,999 and Rs 6,999

The successful Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi launched Redmi Y1 and Redmi Y1 Lite at an event in New Delhi.…