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Field notes from building and living: what I figure out, what I read, what sticks. Two engineering deep dives so far, with more (life, learning, quick things I learn) to come. Filter by Tech · Life · Learning · TIL.

Tech · 9 min · May 2026

Building Resilient HTTP Clients: A Deep Dive into Retry Logic

Most distributed-system incidents aren't caused by hard failures. They're caused by transient ones handled badly.

Tech · 7 min · May 2026

How Django's get_or_create Quietly Solves Race Conditions You Thought Were Your Problem

When concurrent requests race to insert the same record, most teams reach for retry logic. Django's get_or_create handles it in one line.

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