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Maaz A.

Backend Systems Engineer.

I build the infrastructure that powers products at scale — distributed systems, APIs, and the engineering decisions behind them.

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A high-throughput event ingestion system processing 2M events/sec with sub-10ms p99 latency, built on Kafka and custom partitioning logic.

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May 2025·8 min read

Why idempotency keys are harder than they look

Designing idempotent APIs sounds straightforward until you account for clock skew, distributed caches, and exactly-once semantics across service boundaries.