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Sahil Kapoor

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Sahil Kapoor

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Mar 2

Synchronized Expiration in Distributed Systems

Caching is not about speed. It’s about load control. Deterministic TTL creates hidden synchronization points that eventually break under…

Synchronized Expiration in Distributed Systems

Sahil Kapoor

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Jan 28

Make the Consequence Real

Senior engineering leadership breaks when clarity, dashboards, and alignment are treated as sufficient. At scale, real change comes from…

Make the Consequence Real

Sahil Kapoor

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Jan 15

An Ode to Stack Overflow: The Community That Taught a Generation to Think

Stack Overflow was not just a website. It was a place that taught us how to think in public. How to be precise. How to be wrong, and then…

An Ode to Stack Overflow: The Community That Taught a Generation to Think

Sahil Kapoor

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Dec 13, 2025

The Strangler Fig Pattern: Growing Around Legacy

From the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the rainforest, the world shows us one truth: evolution beats replacement. The Strangler Fig pattern is…

The Strangler Fig Pattern: Growing Around Legacy

Sahil Kapoor

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Nov 18, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Scale

Everyone loves talking about scale, but very few grasp what it actually demands. On a whiteboard, everything feels clean. Lines are…

The Hidden Cost of Scale

Sahil Kapoor

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Nov 3, 2025

The Silent Rewrite of Software Engineering

The ground beneath software engineering is shifting, and the teams moving fastest aren’t rejecting LLMs, they’re weaponising them.

The Silent Rewrite of Software Engineering

Sahil Kapoor

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Sep 20, 2025

AI and the Rise of the “Full-Stack” Product Manager

Product management has always been a multidisciplinary function, but the boundaries of the role are blurrier than ever. The term “full…

AI and the Rise of the “Full-Stack” Product Manager

Sahil Kapoor

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Aug 24, 2025

The Reliability Stack: An Honest Introduction

Let me tell you something that most teams learn the hard way: uptime is a vanity metric. We often think if the server dashboard is green…

Sahil Kapoor

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Aug 21, 2025

The Art of Breaking Things on Purpose

Instead of hoping systems don’t fail, what if you break them on purpose? To find weak spots before the world does. Netflix, Uber, and…

The Art of Breaking Things on Purpose

Sahil Kapoor

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Jul 2, 2025

Hiring Is Broken. Let us Not Be.

Hiring is hard. But it doesn’t have to be heartless. After hundreds of interviews, here are some raw, personal thoughts about how we hire…

Hiring Is Broken. Let us Not Be.

Sahil Kapoor

Sahil Kapoor

he/him

Leading technology as CEO at Hawk MarTech Building in gaming, travel, sports, and infra. Writing sharp takes on product, tech and startups at sahilkapoor.com.

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