Project Whitepaper

The Kademlia DHT

From MIT research paper to internet infrastructure: The distributed hash table that changed everything

Aug 15 • 

Akhilesh Manda

2

July 2025

The year review edition!

the one where we revisit some 🔥 ideas from the papers we covered

Jul 27 • 

Akhilesh Manda

1

March 2025

Bittorent

How It Changed File Sharing Forever

Mar 30 • 

Akhilesh Manda

3

February 2025

Flash Attention

Supercharging Transformers with Lightning-Fast Memory Efficiency

Feb 28 • 

Akhilesh Manda

4

January 2025

Monolith

Understand behind the scenes of one of the most addictive platforms TikTok

Jan 30 • 

Akhilesh Manda

December 2024

WhatsApp Security

A brief overview of the encryption systems for whatsapp

Dec 25, 2024 • 

Akhilesh Manda

4

November 2024

The Solana Whitepaper

Notes and concepts powering the Solana blockchain

Nov 5, 2024 • 

Akhilesh Manda

3

October 2024

Chubby

Let's talk about Chubby - Google's distributed lock system

Oct 2, 2024 • 

Akhilesh Manda

5

2

September 2024

MapReduce

Decoding the map reduce paper from Google along with a case study and implementation

Sep 1, 2024 • 

Akhilesh Manda

5

July 2024

Cassandra

A decentralised structured storage system

Jul 31, 2024 • 

Akhilesh Manda

, 

Kalash Shah

, and 

Dhruv Dave

4

4

June 2024

Apache Kafka

Brief overview of handling distributed logs and messages using Kafka

Jun 30, 2024 • 

Kalash Shah

, 

Akhilesh Manda

, and 

Dhruv Dave

7

Amazon Dynamo DB

Brief overview of the Amazon's Dynamo DB whitepaper with an interesting case study

Jun 2, 2024 • 

Akhilesh Manda

, 

Kalash Shah

, and 

Dhruv Dave

12