Hi, I'm Arpit
I take products from ZERO to ONE and beyond
Technical Architect
@Unacademy
Previously worked at
@Amazon
and
@Practo
You can find me @arpit_bhayani
Last blog I wrote
I write tech articles on Engineering, System Design and a bit of Programming.
Read'em hereSliding window based Rate Limiter
A rate limiter is used to control the rate of traffic sent or received on the network and in this article we dive deep and design a sliding window based rate limiter.
Companies I've worked for
In 6 years of my work-ex I have worked for an early stage startup, a rocketship and a FAANG company. Here is the gist of work I did at each
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UnacademyI ensure that we do things the right way and build systems that scales fast and well. Stuff that I focus the most is Search and Notification system.
AmazonI was part of the team that built e-commerce database of Amazon which meant I was always on my toe. I also wrote a data pipeline system which moved data at multi-million QPS.
PractoI did Platform Engineering at Practo and was part of DevOps which meant I managed infrastructure and made life better for developers by writing few services here and there.
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Things I've built and scaled
Helps client mux multiple GET api requests into one and boost the user perceived performance.
Relevance on the fly, entity extraction, intent identification, related searches and query corrector engine.
Fans out sms, e-mail, in-app and push notifications to users in near-real time.
Rule engine for coupon creation, consumption and exhaustion.
Fault tolerant and reliable data pipeline system with ETL, multi-consumer and multi-sink support.
Automating mundane corrective actions to be taken when system needs it.
Ability to define workflow in terms of a graph where each step maps to a function to be executed.
Populates data in an vanilla staging instance by calling out APIs with faked and masked data.
The tool deployed python apps to over 150 servers in parallel with atomicity and auto-rollbacks as native features.
Rolling out feature to users incrementally, as defined by their geography, privileges, and other factors.
Book I'm reading
Currently I'm reading Database Internals.
When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it’s often difficult to understand what each one offers and how they differ. With this practical guide, Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind modern database and storage engine internals.
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