https://gopalsharma.in/categories/engineering/Recent content in Engineering on Gopal SharmaHugoen-usTue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gopalsharma.in/writing/building-a-website-that-survives-one-million-users/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gopalsharma.in/writing/building-a-website-that-survives-one-million-users/Registered users are a vanity metric. What actually breaks your stack is concurrent load — and the architecture you need evolves in four stages, not one heroic rewrite.https://gopalsharma.in/writing/the-moment-you-add-a-second-server/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gopalsharma.in/writing/the-moment-you-add-a-second-server/The day you add a second server, you inherit a new class of failures — and the apps you use every day already know how to survive them.https://gopalsharma.in/writing/no-server-how-sqlite-conquered-computing/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gopalsharma.in/writing/no-server-how-sqlite-conquered-computing/The story of SQLite — from a Navy destroyer contract to the database inside every smartphone.https://gopalsharma.in/writing/engineering-notes/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gopalsharma.in/writing/engineering-notes/Scattered notes on languages, tools, and engineering decisions.