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Team Imran

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.

18 articles

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…
03/11/2018 12 min read
SQL vs NoSQL: Choosing a Data Model Under Real Constraints
SQL vs NoSQL decided on real constraints: what relational databases guarantee, the types of nosql databases, when to…
01/09/2018 12 min read
Database Indexing: How Indexes Speed Up Reads (and Cost Writes)
How do database indexes work: the b tree index, clustered vs non clustered indexes, composite index column order,…
30/06/2018 7 min read
Sharding vs Replication: Which One Do You Need?
Sharding vs replication compared: what each mechanism scales, when replication is enough, when to shard, and why production…
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…
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…

Team Imran

Blob and Object Storage: Storing Files at Scale

SQL vs NoSQL: Choosing a Data Model Under Real Constraints

Database Indexing: How Indexes Speed Up Reads (and Cost Writes)

Sharding vs Replication: Which One Do You Need?

Database Sharding: Partitioning Strategies, Hot Keys, and Rebalancing

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