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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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25/10/2017 4 min read

Xiaomi Redmi 3s Prime owner’s review

After using Xiaomi Redmi 3s Prime for more than a year I felt like a detailed review can…
21/10/2017 12 min read

Redis Architecture: Data Structures, Persistence, and High Availability

Redis architecture under the caching patterns: the single-threaded event loop, redis data structures, maxmemory eviction, rdb vs aof…
15/10/2017 10 min read

SQL Injection Prevention: Parameterized Queries, ORMs, and Defense in Depth

SQL Injection Prevention keeps queries bound to data, not to raw strings. Learn parameters, ORM limits, least privilege,…
10/10/2017 10 min read

Liveness vs Readiness Probes: Kubernetes Health Checks Done Right

Liveness vs Readiness Probes decide restart versus traffic. Learn Kubernetes settings that avoid crash loops, slow starts, and…
01/09/2017 10 min read

XSS Prevention for Backend Engineers: Output Encoding, CSP, and Trust Boundaries

XSS Prevention for Backend Engineers covers encoding, CSP, and trust lines. Learn where output must be escaped and…
20/08/2017 10 min read

Helm Charts for Kubernetes: Packaging, Templating, Versioning, and Release Strategies

Helm Charts for Kubernetes covers packaging, templates, versions, and releases. Learn what breaks on upgrade, how to pin…
19/08/2017 5 min read

Mandatory Security For Your New WordPress Site

So, you’ve just launched your shiny new WordPress website. The theme is perfect, the copy is polished, and…
19/08/2017 11 min read

Redis Caching: Patterns for Real Workloads

Redis caching in practice: cache-aside with a TTL on every write, the redis TTL strategy, and the stampede,…
27/06/2017 2 min read

Why you should buy a desktop computer and how it is better

Many of you may be wondering why buy desktop computer when we have lots of laptop variants to…
16/06/2017 9 min read

Cache Failure Modes: Stampede, Avalanche, and Penetration

The three ways caches fail when it matters: the cache stampede on an expired key, cache avalanche from…
15/06/2017 10 min read

Kubernetes for Backend Engineers: Architecture, Scheduling, Autoscaling, and Failure Modes

Kubernetes for Backend Engineers covers scheduling, autoscaling, and failure modes. Learn how pods fail, how to set limits,…
14/04/2017 12 min read

Distributed Caching: Architecture and Invalidation Across Nodes

Distributed caching beyond one node: consistent-hash routing, cache tiers, hot keys, cross-node invalidation, and the redis vs memcached…
10/02/2017 12 min read

Caching in System Design: Patterns, Eviction, and Hit Ratio

Cache-aside vs read-through, write-through vs write-back, LRU eviction, and the hit-ratio math that decides whether a cache pays…
09/12/2016 11 min read

L4 vs L7 Load Balancing: Where the Balancer Looks

L4 vs L7 load balancing compared: the layer 4 load balancer's connection-level speed, the layer 7 load balancer's…