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Aseem's Blog

I write here to keep my brain from rotting from all the slop

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October 27, 2026 · Aseem Savio

The Document Hippies vs. The Relational Police vs. the Graph Nerds - and the People Who Just Use Postgres

A practical look at relational, document, and graph data models - when each one fits, and why picking the wrong one makes everything harder.

data-modeling
relational-databases
nosql
graph-databases
postgresql
vector-databases

The Document Hippies vs. The Relational Police vs. the Graph Nerds - and the People Who Just Use Postgres

October 23, 2026 · Aseem Savio

How To Build Systems That Won't Explode (Immediately)

Lessons from Kleppmann interleaved with my real world architecture experience

system-design
distributed-systems
reliability
scalability
maintainability
fault-tolerance

How To Build Systems That Won't Explode (Immediately)

July 17, 2022 · Aseem Savio

How I Spun Up 5 Million Virtual Threads Without Stalling The JVM

Spinning up five million Java virtual threads on JDK 19 with Project Loom, and why sleep() and other blocking calls never stall the JVM.

java
project-loom
virtual-threads
concurrency
jvm

How I Spun Up 5 Million Virtual Threads Without Stalling The JVM

June 27, 2022 · Aseem Savio

Is The Thread-per-Request Model a Good Thing After Project Loom?

Project Loom's virtual threads make Java's thread-per-request model efficient again, and show why virtual threads should not be pooled.

java
project-loom
virtual-threads
concurrency
thread-per-request

Is The Thread-per-Request Model a Good Thing After Project Loom?