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Engineering Reliability at Scale: A Technical Journey into Building a Distributed Fintech Lending Platform

2025-12-2522 min read

A practitioner’s blueprint for designing a resilient lending platform: bounded-context microservices, event-driven orchestration, CDC pipelines, workflow engines, and reliability patterns for payments and partners.

fintechreliabilityarchitecturemicroserviceslendingdesign patterns

Built for Many, Broken by None: Multi-Tenant Platforms that Refuse to Fail

2025-12-1110 min read

A 360° guide to multi-tenant marketplaces: how to handle thousands of divergent sellers without collapsing, covering data models, rules engines, isolation, and scale war stories.

multi-tenancyarchitectureSaaSmarketplacesscaling

Why Companies Struggle with Analytics and AI: The Absent Data Architecture Foundation

2025-11-2519 min read

A deep technical reflection on why organisations fail at analytics, AI, data quality, and reliability, not because of weak code, but because their data architecture is missing or broken.

data architectureAIanalyticsengineering leadershipsystem design

The Hidden Power of Linear & Logistic Regression

2025-11-217 min read

Rare intricacies, overlooked behaviours, and real-world ML use cases.

AIMachine LearningRegressionLogisticData Science