Hrushikesh Dokala

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things i’ve written, learned, and explored recently. mostly about databases, ai, and some random stuff.

30 Dec 2025

building snaildb 🐌 : embedded, persistent key-value store written in rust

4 Jan 2026

2025 wrapped

2 Jan 2026

from intern to swe 2

26 Nov 2025

is ai making us dumber?

24 Nov 2025

bf-tree

21 Nov 2025

vitess architecture

17 Nov 2025

moe - mixture of experts

15 Nov 2025

ring deployment architecture

16 Aug 2025

SPFresh: incremental in-place updates for billion scale

15 Aug 2025

ann (approximate nearest neighbor) indexes

22 Jul 2025

building bm25

20 Jul 2025

be grateful

18 Jul 2025

indexes

8 Jul 2025

talking ≠ doing

15 Jun 2025

do you commit directly to the db? nah bro!

9 Nov 2024

interview experience @atlan

1 Jun 2024

how to almost reduce llm costs by 80%

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