Writing by Sandeep Debnath on CTO leadership, platform architecture, distributed systems, AI strategy and scaling consumer technology in Bangladesh and beyond.
The lesson for anyone building platforms: find the one product the local market needs every day, make it your cash cow, then cross-sell. Launching everything, everywhere, all at once rarely works.
Ten ways to scale a database, put in the order you should actually use them. Most teams grab the hardest fix first, when the real problem sits on the bottom rung.
Some companies build their way into a new market. Uber just paid $2.3 billion, all cash, to skip that step.
5 anti-patterns that quietly couple your system, and how to fix them
Why MQTT deserves your attention
A practical framework for deciding when a consumer platform should split into microservices, and when a well-structured monolith is the smarter bet.
Grab is assembling a financial operating system for Southeast Asian consumers. The acquisitions are the easy part. The hard part is the plumbing that has to connect them.