Hi, I’m Mitendra, I’ve spent the past 20 years building and operating large-scale systems, from reverse proxies and load balancers to service discovery and developer platforms.

This newsletter shares practical lessons from the field, deep dives into how traffic actually flows, what breaks in production, and why the design tradeoffs matter. Topics include edge security, protocol internals, load balancing strategies, service-to-service communication, and infrastructure that quietly powers the internet.

I publish 1–2 times a month, focused on signal over noise, no fluff, no summaries of what’s already in docs.

If you work in backend, infra, or platform engineering and want unvarnished insights from real systems, this is for you.

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