Distributed systems
Designing reliable, high-throughput platforms for enterprise and consumer-scale workloads.
Shunmugavel Krishnan
Notes on Systems and AI.
A small personal blog for notes on distributed systems, platform engineering, and the parts of agentic software that become interesting once they have to work reliably.
About
Short notes from things I am building, testing, and learning.
I use this site to write down a few ideas clearly: what seems to hold up in practice, where systems get fragile, and what becomes learnable only after building and operating something end to end.
Focus
Current areas of technical interest and long-term craft.
Platform engineering
Building foundations that product teams and engineers can move quickly on top of.
AI-assisted development
Exploring pragmatic ways to use agents, orchestration, and modern tooling to improve engineering leverage.
Writing
Short essays on engineering systems, cloud platforms, and practical AI.
First essay
Notes from building a narrow review loop
A short write-up on agent systems, MCP-style tool integration, and the engineering friction that appears once a useful workflow has to run reliably.
In progress
More essays soon
I plan to keep this site focused on short notes about systems, engineering leverage, and practical AI.