--- layout: default title: Blog permalink: /blog/ description: "Read insightful articles, tutorials, and engineering stories covering software architecture, backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and more." keywords: ["Tech blog", "Rajkumar Venkataraman", "rkoots blog", "engineering blog", "backend tutorials", "fintech blog", "cloud engineering", "software design", "API development"] ---

📚 The Blog Shelf

✍️ Experiences, Experiments & Engineering - Articles straight from the trenches — covering real-world projects, lessons learned, and behind-the-scenes of building technology.

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