where systems take their shape

I'm Touhid Arastu, an engineering leader with backend roots. I write about distributed systems, platform work, and growing teams, the slower kind of engineering work, where old systems are asked to carry new weight and the real problem takes a while to show its face.

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jan 18, 2026 1 min read

a first post, after years of not posting

Why I'm finally writing things down in a place that isn't a notebook or a Slack DM.

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