Architecture blueprints, battle-tested hackathon playbooks, distributed systems, and lessons from high-pressure builds.
Winning 7 national offline hackathons isn't luck—it's an engineering and psychological formula. Here is the exact blueprint on team composition, beating generic AI ideas, killer UI polish, and creating unforgettable moments.
Prince Pal
A deep dive into our 24-hour sprint at Google Prompt Wars where we secured 1st Runner Up building a multiplayer 2D Snow Bros game powered by prompt engineering and Google Gemini API.
Managing environment variables and secret properties across a distributed cluster gets chaotic fast. Here is how we implemented a unified Spring Cloud Config Server at AstroRaag.
Serverless functions are cost-effective but suffer from cold starts. Here is how we engineered Upbot to monitor endpoints and maintain high availability.
Why mixing WebSockets with chunked HTTP uploads is the optimal architecture for concurrent ephemeral file sharing rooms.
