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.
Read engineering articles →Practical How-To Guides
Solutions to real problems. No filler.
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Software development · May 2026 · 6 min read
Your Codebase Has Three Readers Now — and One of Them Is an AI Agent
AI agents are reading your codebase. The question is whether it's written for them.
Read article →System design · May 2026
Killed One Service and Nothing Should Break
Speed is only an asset if your engineering culture can keep up. Learn why AI isn't DRY by default and how to manage the "junior developer" c...
Software development · April 2026
A/B Routing With Nginx: No Third-Party Tools Required
Nginx can handle A/B routing natively — no LaunchDarkly, no Optimizely, no SDK. Three directives and a cookie. Here's how it works.