mahesh’s blog

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This is a blog on distributed systems. I am a systems researcher currently working at Meta. Previously I worked as a software engineer at Confluent (2022-2024) and Facebook (2017-2022); an Associate Professor at Yale; and a researcher at VMware Research and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. All opi

Distributed systems / cloud Databases Engineering management / careers

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Posts: 12 from 19 Oct 2021 to 12 Sep 2026
Posting: now and then (3 in the last year)
Kind: personal blog
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2026 3

12 SepThree Ideas for Benchmarking AI-Driven System Design
22 JulThe Bottlenecks for AI-Driven System Design: why Principal Engineers are not (yet) obsolete.
24 AprYour Agent is a Distributed System (and fails like one)

2025 2

29 AprJeeps, Ferraris, and Other Engineers
9 FebThe Art of Managing Skunks

2024 1

8 MayThree Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy)

2023 2

12 JulWhat we talk about when we talk about System Design
6 MayThe Leadership Myth in Replicated Databases

2021 4

14 DecIs Raft more modular than MultiPaxos?
21 NovMultiPaxos made Simple
15 NovPaxos made Abstract
19 Oct42 things I learned from building a production database