Neeraj Prakash·Sep 27We used Cassandra as for lock management — And It took down our entire appBackground: We run multiple event based apps. Messages come in a queue, application processes these messages and publishes enriched…
Neeraj Prakash·Apr 20Automating school inbox: Building a local AI-driven workflow automation task in 8 hoursI have been facing this information overload, when my inbox has become a consistent stream of long emails from kids schools. Most of these…
Neeraj Prakash·Apr 11, 2025Digging Deep: Our problem with Uneven Cassandra data distribution (Ongoing journey)Hotspots, We designed our system with UUID as the partition key, but turns out that UUIDs are not a silver bullet (At least in our case, it…
