Drawn from the research and writing of From Bits to Systems — practical, India-relevant engineering insights for students and early-career developers.
The real trade-offs between working at a services giant like TCS or Infosys versus a product company like Razorpay or Zepto — salary structure, career trajectory, and what you actually learn in your first three years.
A systems-thinking walkthrough of India's Unified Payments Interface — how a country-scale payment system was designed with remarkable constraints, and what every software engineer should learn from it.
How to evaluate AI claims as an engineer — distinguishing benchmark performance from production reliability, understanding the cost of inference, and developing a practical framework for deciding when AI actually helps.
The specific conceptual gaps between university projects and production cloud architecture — and the mental models that close those gaps fastest. Includes real examples from Indian cloud deployments.
What high-performing junior engineers do differently in their first three months — based on observations across 20 years of hiring, training, and working alongside engineers at every stage of their careers.
Why code readability is the most consistently undervalued skill in Indian engineering education — and a practical guide to developing it systematically, regardless of which language you work in.
Every article here is drawn from From Bits to Systems — a 44-chapter guide that covers the complete journey from hardware to your first production system. Join the waitlist to get Chapter 1 free.
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