Distributed systems
Reliability, scale, coordination, and the tradeoffs that appear when systems have to behave well under real load.
Shunmugavel Krishnan
Notes on Systems and AI.
A small personal blog for notes on distributed systems, platform engineering, and the parts of agentic software that become interesting once they have to work reliably.
About
Short notes from things I am building, testing, and learning.
I use this site to write down a few ideas clearly: what seems to hold up in practice, where systems get fragile, and what becomes learnable only after building and operating something end to end.
Focus
Topics I keep returning to in both building and writing.
Platform engineering
Interfaces, tooling, and internal foundations that help teams move faster without making the system harder to operate.
AI systems
Workflows, tool integration, evaluation, and the practical engineering work needed to make agentic software dependable.
Writing
Short essays on engineering systems, cloud platforms, and practical AI.
First essay
Notes from building a narrow review loop
A short write-up on agent systems, MCP-style tool integration, and the engineering friction that appears once a useful workflow has to run reliably.
In progress
More essays soon
I plan to keep this site focused on short notes about systems, engineering leverage, and practical AI.