rauhan.sheikh
Living Page · What I'm Doing Now

What I'm Doing Now

Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now movement. A public declaration of current priorities, experiments, and intellectual focus.

BUILDING

Enterprise Systems at ProSync & BusinessOS

Architecting high-throughput backend services at ProSync Infotech and refining the double-entry immutable ledger engine for BusinessOS.

LEARNING

PostgreSQL Internals

Diving deeper into Postgres storage engines: VACUUM behavior, write-ahead logging (WAL), and composite index selectivity.

READING

Engineering Literature

Reading 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' by Martin Kleppmann & 'A Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout.

THINKING

Accidental Complexity in Web Apps

Reflecting on how much complexity in modern web apps comes from trying to coordinate distributed state in JavaScript instead of relying on solid database primitives.

EXPERIMENTING

Local-First Architecture

Experimenting with CRDTs and offline-capable data synchronization patterns for real-time collaboration tools.

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