The Last Mango Problem: Race Conditions in a Real Marketplace
Fifty buyers, one item &one coupon: how a farmers market checkout stays honest under pressure, the one-line bug a stress test caught before.
Oct 1, 202611 min read
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The Engineering Logs
I’m Syed Ahmer Shah. Engineering Logs is where I document the real work behind building software—from architecture and debugging to performance, databases, and the decisions that shape a project.
I write about what I build, the problems I run into, the choices I make, and what each project teaches me along the way.
Part of Syed Ahmer Shah | Engineering Logs: Design, Sync, Energize.
GleanGrid: Building a Pre-Order Marketplace for Farmers Markets
A case study on turning Hyderabad's weekly farmers markets into something you can reserve from your phone, without taking the market itself away
Sep 29, 202616 min read1
The Art of Object-Oriented Programming
A practical guide to designing cleaner, modular, and maintainable software with OOP principles
Sep 17, 20269 min read4
The New Era of Software Engineering
How AI coding assistants and autonomous agents are changing the way software engineers build, debug, and think about software.
Sep 4, 202616 min read10
How Databases Work: From Tables to Query Execution
Understanding Database Architecture, SQL Queries, and Performance Optimization for Modern Applications
Aug 28, 202613 min read9
Change One Number. Take Everything.
The #1 Web Vulnerability | Why 94% of Applications Fail This Test
Aug 11, 202621 min read13