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Damini Bansal

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DA Damini Bansal · Towards Dev

Understanding Two-Phase and Three-Phase Commit Protocols: Key Differences, Use Cases, and Practical…

In distributed systems, coordinating transactions across multiple resources can be complex. Imagine you have multiple systems or databases…

Nov 06, 2024 · 4 min read · 66 claps #two-phase-commit #three-phase #2pc

Understanding Two-Phase and Three-Phase Commit Protocols: Key Differences, Use Cases, and Practical…

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DA Damini Bansal · Towards Dev

Confidential Containers (CoCo) — Running Code Nobody Else Can See, Not Even the Cloud Provider

The One-Liner

Jun 24, 2026 · 11 min read · 31 claps #confidential-computing #kubernetes #security

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Stop Writing YAML: Build Your CI/CD Pipelines in Real Code with Dagger

Last Tuesday I spent three hours debugging a CI pipeline. Not my code — the code was fine. I was debugging the 200-line GitHub Actions YAML…

Jun 01, 2026 · 10 min read · 11 claps #dagger #devops #ci-cd-pipeline

Stop Writing YAML: Build Your CI/CD Pipelines in Real Code with Dagger

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How ChatGPT Actually Talks Back to You — A Visual Guide to the Infrastructure Behind Every AI…

You type a question. Two seconds later, words start appearing on your screen, one by one, like someone typing back to you in real time.

May 25, 2026 · 11 min read · 0 claps #artificial-intelligence #llm #machine-learning

How ChatGPT Actually Talks Back to You — A Visual Guide to the Infrastructure Behind Every AI…

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DA Damini Bansal · Dev Genius

Sigstore — Let’s Encrypt, But for Code Signing

In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in XZ Utils — a compression library installed on virtually every Linux system on earth. A…

Jun 17, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #software-security #devops #kubernetes

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DA Damini Bansal · Dev Genius

Code Is Abundant. Now What?

Three perspectives on what software engineering becomes when writing code is no longer the hard part.

Apr 30, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #software-engineering #ai #developer-productivity

MDA TCH

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How Giphy Uses CDNs to Deliver 10 Billion GIFs Every Day

Every day, Giphy delivers billions of GIFs across the globe to enhance our messages with humor, excitement, and expression. But how does…

Nov 09, 2024 · 3 min read · 0 claps #cdn #content-delivery #content-delivery-network

How Giphy Uses CDNs to Deliver 10 Billion GIFs Every Day

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Anycast, VRRP, BGP, and CoreDNS: Key Networking Concepts Explained

🔹 Anycast (Scalable Traffic Distribution)

Mar 13, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #anycast #vrrp #coredns

Anycast, VRRP, BGP, and CoreDNS: Key Networking Concepts Explained

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Middle Insertion: How MySQL’s InnoDB Keeps Your Cache Hot

When we talk about MySQL performance, conversations usually revolve around indexes, query optimization, or buffer pool sizing. But there’s…

Jan 29, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #mysql-internals #database-performance #cache