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Lakin Mohapatra

How I Finally Mastered System Design (After Failing at It for Years)

I didn’t learn system design from a course or YouTube playlist.

Nov 4

How I Finally Mastered System Design (After Failing at It for Years)

Nov 4

How Databricks Just Changed the AI Game: Open-Source Models Now Beat Claude at 90x Lower Cost

A breakthrough technique called GEPA is making expensive proprietary AI models obsolete for most enterprise use cases

Sep 30

How Databricks Just Changed the AI Game: Open-Source Models Now Beat Claude at 90x Lower Cost

Sep 30

H1B Visa : America’s Talent Addiction & India’s Brain Drain Crisis

100,000 H1B visas every year.

Sep 21

H1B Visa : America’s Talent Addiction & India’s Brain Drain Crisis

Sep 21

How a Single React useEffect Bug Took Down Cloudflare

On September 12, 2025, Cloudflare — the company famous for protecting the internet from DDoS attacks — suffered a global outage.

Sep 15

How a Single React useEffect Bug Took Down Cloudflare

Sep 15

Oracle vs Indian IT: The Story of Builders and Renters

One week. That’s all it took for Oracle to shock the world.

Sep 11

Oracle vs Indian IT: The Story of Builders and Renters

Sep 11

12 Boring Infrastructure Improvements That Transformed Developer Productivity

I used to think infra wins were about scale.

Aug 27

12 Boring Infrastructure Improvements That Transformed Developer Productivity

Aug 27

AWS Resource Naming Conventions: Best Practices for Organized and Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

Managing resources in Amazon Web Services (AWS) requires a well-defined naming convention to maintain organization, ensure consistency, and…

Aug 23

AWS Resource Naming Conventions: Best Practices for Organized and Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

Aug 23

AI is everywhere. But where’s the innovation?

AI is everywhere.

Aug 5

AI is everywhere. But where’s the innovation?

Aug 5

Testing Strategies for API Development Under Tight Deadlines

In the modern software development era, there’s an ever-present push to build faster, ship sooner, and iterate continuously. Nowhere is…

May 6

Testing Strategies for API Development Under Tight Deadlines

May 6

How ChatGPT Helped Me Navigate a Medical Crisis

When people think of AI, they imagine the buzzwords: automation, productivity, next-gen tooling. When they hear about ChatGPT or similar AI…

Apr 22

How ChatGPT Helped Me Navigate a Medical Crisis

Apr 22

Lakin Mohapatra

Lakin Mohapatra

Software Engineer | Hungry coder | Proud Indian | Cyber Security Researcher | Blogger | Architect (web2 + web 3)

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