Writing
Essays on cloud architecture, AI engineering, and what training thousands of people has taught me about how we actually learn hard things.
August 19, 2026 · 4 min read
Scaling an app is the fun problem. Paying for it after the traffic leaves is the one nobody schedules a meeting for. A field record of how we built a code-execution engine that scales to 500+ concurrent users — and the auto-scaling traps that nearly kept it billing us long after the users went home.
August 8, 2026 · 3 min read
What you're actually paying for when you buy a domain, how ICANN accredits the registrars that sell to you, what ICANN Lookup shows about any domain — and why owning a name still doesn't point it anywhere. Part 2 of 5.
August 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A quick tour of the stack behind aryantripathi.dev, and why it's deliberately boring.
August 8, 2026 · 3 min read
What localhost:3000 actually means, why nobody else can open it, and how a free host gives you a real public URL the moment you connect a repo — Part 1 of a 5-part course on how a website actually gets from your laptop to the internet.
August 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Why this exists, what it's for, and what to expect from the field notes I'll be posting here.