Gaurav Verma
builds systems
that don't blink.

# design happens long before the first line of code class GauravVerma(PrincipalEngineer): def design(self, problem): why = self.constraints(problem) # scale, SLA, cost hld = self.boundaries(why) # data flow, ownership lld = self.contracts(hld) # schemas, idempotency # what turns a diagram into a design for f in self.what_breaks(lld): assert f.is_contained # blast radius assert f.is_observable # traced, not guessed assert f.is_recoverable # retry, replay, revert assert f.loses_nothing # no silent data loss return self.simplest_thing_that_survives(hld, lld) def what_breaks(self, system): yield from ( "the network", "the network, but only one way", "a dependency that got slow, not down", "a crash mid-write", "the same event twice", "a webhook that landed while we were down", "a write that landed, an event that didn't", "two leaders, both certain", "a clock that lies", "a replica three minutes behind", "one hot key", "retries, in unison", "a queue that only grows", "a cache, cold, at 9am", "exactly-once, allegedly", "the tenant with 100x the data", ) python -c "GauravVerma().design(your_hardest_problem)"