Notes on distributed systems, ML & agent platforms, and real-time analytics.https://gwthm.in/https://gwthm.in/writing/ai-teammate/https://gwthm.in/writing/ai-teammate/An agent that started as one team's tool and got pulled in across the company. What I learned had almost nothing to do with models, and everything to do with trust.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIhttps://gwthm.in/writing/deduplication-at-scale/https://gwthm.in/writing/deduplication-at-scale/How we kept roughly 16 billion analytics events honest on ClickHouse: ReplacingMergeTree, the ORDER BY that does the real work, why we banned FINAL, and dedup at the edges.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSystemshttps://gwthm.in/writing/kubernetes-said-no-more-cpu/https://gwthm.in/writing/kubernetes-said-no-more-cpu/We moved a hot Python service to Go, cut latency by 95 percent, and then watched it fall over while every CPU graph stayed calm. The culprit was throttling, not usage. A short version of my Zepto engineering post.Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTSystemshttps://gwthm.in/writing/discussion-vs-argument/https://gwthm.in/writing/discussion-vs-argument/There is a subtle but important difference between discussing and arguing, and knowing which one you are actually in changes how you communicate.Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMTThoughtshttps://gwthm.in/writing/predictably-irrational/https://gwthm.in/writing/predictably-irrational/Reading notes on Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: relativity, and the fallacy of supply and demand.Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTBooks