Welcome to the Journey

I finally understand how autocomplete functionality works. It commonly uses a data structure called a Trie. [Read More]

I built my first full stack application. It was a CRUD-based habit tracker, and while that might sound simple on the surface, it taught me more about how software systems actually work than anything else I’ve done so far. This post is a breakdown of how I built it, what... [Read More]

I used to think daily use meant I understood the internet. That assumption didn’t survive five minutes of actual research. Once I started digging, I realized how many pieces have to align perfectly for data to travel from a server halfway around the world to my screen. Here’s how it... [Read More]

As I’m learning more about full-stack engineering, I’ve realized something: even though all components are important, the database is the most essential piece of distributed systems. Why? Because databases store all the critical user and business information. Without a database, you can’t save or retrieve anything. Your system would essentially... [Read More]

Stacks: More Than Just Function Calls I used to think stacks were primarily for managing function calls and handling recursion—basically just keeping track of where functions were called from. But recently, I had an “aha!” moment that completely changed my understanding of this fundamental data structure. [Read More]