Amitav Roy
I help engineering teams design systems that scale.
17 years building production systems across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS. I write about system design, architecture decisions, and the patterns that keep software running at scale for engineering leaders and developers.
Consultant · Architect · Speaker
What I write about
System Design & Architecture
How distributed systems fail, scale, and recover.
Multi-cloud strategy, database design patterns, and race conditions at production scale.
Read system design articles →Software Engineering & AI
Building with modern tools, done right.
AI-assisted development, MCP integrations, and Laravel delivery practices.
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Solutions to real problems. No filler.
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System design · July 2026 · 8 min read
Dead Letter Queue (DQL) Debug, Reprocess, Never Lose a Job
Retries run out eventually. A Dead Letter Queue catches what's left — but it's not a magic bullet. Redrive policies, poison jobs, FIFO caveats, and why observability matters.
Read article →Software development · July 2026
How I Stopped Getting Surprised by My Own Code
Explore first, document the plan, then build. This one shift stopped my code reviews from being full of surprises — and made every feature g...
Software development · July 2026
Logging Is Infrastructure: What I Learned Wiring Pino Into a NestJS API
Logging felt like a boring swap — console.log for pino. Instead it unlocked structured, traceable, secure production logs. Here's why AsyncL...