Kafka Design Reader
I built this site to understand Design a Distributed Message Queue (like Kafka) by Chirag Hasija. Explore partitions, consumer offsets, replication, and delivery guarantees through diagrams and interactive examples.
A personal notebook
Surya Shukla
I’m a software engineer at Temple. Previously at Zomato and Paytm; a graduate of IIT Goa.
I’ve built backend services, search systems, and event-driven pipelines.
Outside work, I play tennis, swim, and run. Fitness is a regular part of my life. This is where I share what I’m reading, learning, and thinking about.
Stack: Go · Python · Kafka · Redis · Apache Solr · MySQL · AWS
official.surya3jan@gmail.com
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A journal in progress. One useful idea at a time.
Learning sites
Ideas you can exploreLearning LLM Systems
My ongoing study of language model inference and serving. Start with an interactive guide to token generation and KV caching; related learning sites will join this collection as I work through them.
Writing
Notes & reflectionsTechnical notes
Notes on software and systems will live here. For now, explore the interactive Kafka guide in Learning sites.
Personal reflections
Starting this journal
A small home for the things I explore, build, and learn along the way.
Books
On my bookshelfThe Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Read: The White Tiger · Anxious People · Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
A place for reading notes and reflections as I write them.