Shashank Mayya

From MCP Config Hell to One-Click Deploy: Mastering Claude’s .dxt Extensions

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the “USB-C for AI,” a universal standard for connecting large language models to external…

Building Koel & Its MCP Core: Engineering Actionable AI for WhatsApp

WhatsApp is essential, connecting our personal lives and driving business communication. But the constant flood of messages creates real…

PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: A Deep Dive with CloudNativePG (CNPG)

Introduction: Mastering Stateful Workloads with CloudNativePG

Waldo: Your Self-Hosted GeoIP Toolkit with a UI, REST API, and MCP

In today’s interconnected world, understanding the geographical context of IP addresses is crucial for various applications, from…

Message Queues vs. Pub/Sub: Decoding Asynchronous Communication (with SQS & Kafka)

Kafka 4.0’s Biggest Game-Changer? A Deep Dive into Share Groups

Breaking the partition barrier: How KIP-932 unlocks true queueing semantics and elastic scaling for your most demanding workloads…

The Edge Gets Heavier: An Analysis of Cloudflare Containers vs. the Hyperscaler Serverless Fleet

Introduction: A New Epoch for Edge Compute

Semantix: Turning Trino/Starburst Data Into Something Agents Can Actually Use

I have spent enough time around data platforms to know this pattern:

Rubberband: The Analytics Chat Host I Wanted To Use

I built Rubberband because I kept running into the same dead end with analytics chat.

The Architect’s Guide to Global Availability: Mastering HA and DR from On-Prem to the Cloud

Introduction