Kapil

Just published an MCP server you can plug into your preferred IDE/Claude Code. It reduces token usage and gives the AI smarter search tools for your codebase and git history by running vector searches securely against your local codebase.

Repo Link: github.com/kapillamba4/...

#mcp #claude

Tired of LLM context bloat and token limits? I built an offline MCP server to address it.

It’s here!

Say hello to Micronutrient Tracking. While calories and macros are important, true health lies in the details. You can now monitor a complete spectrum of vitamins and minerals—from Iron and Zinc to Vitamin D and Magnesium—right from your dashboard.

Download now: vitalityapp.fit/download

Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems that Scale Event-driven architecture diagrams are great to look at: decoupled producers & consumers, message buffering, and automatic retries. But in…

Published a new article on designing resilient, scalable event-driven systems. If you’re building or exploring high-throughput event-driven architectures, this might be useful:
kapillamba4.medium.com/designing-re...

#EventDriven #SystemDesign #Scalability #DistributedSystems #HighThroughput #Kafka

Faster Database Queries: Practical Techniques On Target’s Data Platform team, we tune our job-orchestration platform to stay fast and reliable through seasonal sale peak load.

Just published a new write-up on Medium:

kapillamba4.medium.com/faster-datab...

If you work on highly available & scalable systems, you might find it useful

#Scalability
#Database
#DatabaseOptimization
#PerformanceOptimization
#SystemDesign
#HighAvailability
#EngineeringBestPractices

This is so true

More about Vitality → vitalityapp.fit

#AI #HealthTech #Fitness #Wellness #Nutrition #MealLogging #WorkoutTracking #MacroTracking #CalorieTracking #HabitTracking #Mindfulness #Sleep #BuildInPublic #Startup #SideProject

Vitality: Body & Mind: An AI companion for everyday wellness | Product Hunt Vitality: Body & Mind - Your AI companion for smarter eating, energizing workouts, and everyday wellbeing. Snap photos to log meals, track workouts with ease, and feel more energetic, clearer, and con...

Launching Vitality: Body & Mind — AI wellness that logs meals from a photo, tracks workouts in plain English, and gives balanced guidance. Be an early user + share feedback.

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#AI #Fitness #Wellness

Scaling Prometheus: Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly At Flipkart, we faced a challenge at the API Gateway, where roughly 2,000 instances of the gateway application were emitting close to…

For the full article:
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#Observability
#Metrics
#SRE
#Monitoring
#ScalableSystems
#DataEngineering
#Federation
#Efficiency
#Telemetry
#Infrastructure

Scaling metrics is about designing for efficiency — handling volume cleanly, not clumsily.

I dig into how we handle millions of metrics while keeping storage and querying optimized.

8 Habits to Keep Big Projects Moving as an Individual Contributor During my time at Flipkart, I collaborated on multiple cross-team projects. Here are the habits that helped me manage the chaos and keep…

I broke down each habit in this article with why it matters and how to execute it:
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#IndividualContributor #Productivity #Teamwork #EngineeringCulture

Big projects stall not because of tech, but because habits break down.
Here are 8 habits I picked up working across teams that keep things moving

Reliability as a First-Class Citizen: Patterns for Zero-Downtime Applications This article outlines a comprehensive approach across the application lifecycle —  design, programming and ops that ensures your…

I’ve written a deep dive with practical patterns you can apply right away:
kapillamba4.medium.com/reliability-...

#Reliability #ZeroDowntime #SRE #Backend

Most systems aren’t designed to survive failure.
But they can be. Here are some lessons I’ve learned about building reliable, zero-downtime apps