In progressDatabasesQ4 2026
PostgreSQL internals, properly
Go from writing SQL to explaining what the planner, storage engine and MVCC are doing underneath it. Eight-week self-directed course with weekly assignments.
Roadmap
What I plan to build and learn
Grouped by theme and status rather than pinned to dates. Timeframes are deliberately loose; the statuses are kept honest. Shipped items link to their project or progress page.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
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In progress3
- In progressDistributed systems2026 – 2027
Kafka from first principles
A nine-phase build-it-yourself pipeline in Rust and rdkafka: logs and offsets, producers, consumer groups, delivery semantics, schemas, a three-broker cluster, stream processing, performance tuning and failure drills.
- In progressMetaNov 2026
This site, version one
Ship the pilot, then refine over a few days: design passes, resume PDF export, OG images per page, GitHub activity on the progress page, and a proper domain.
Planned2
- PlannedCloud2027
Cloud and DevOps, hands on
Provision real infrastructure from scratch: VPCs, bastions, ECS Fargate behind an ALB, then rebuild all of it with Terraform and wire up CI/CD. Certifications along the way: AWS SAA-C03, then DVA-C02 or SOA-C02, then CKA.
- PlannedMetaNov 2026
A chatbot that knows this site
An assistant in the corner of every page that answers questions about my work, resume, roadmap and progress, grounded in the same content files that render the site.
Ideas2
- IdeaDistributed systemsSomeday
Failure-mode lab
Build a small three-node system with a queue, a database and a cache, then break it on purpose: partitions, clock skew, slow disks, split brain. Write up what each failure looks like from the outside.
- IdeaCraft2027
Meaningful open-source contribution in Rust
Land a non-trivial change in a crate I depend on at work, most likely in the Kafka or async-database space, and write up the review process.