Architecture Journals.

Detailed, transparent writeups exploring system architecture, real-time protocols, database security, and the engineering decisions behind real-world products.

System Design & Databases31 min read

September 14, 2026

How I Built Busy: A Deep Dive into a Project & Task Management Platform

How I designed and built Busy from the database up, why I made the architectural choices I did, the mistakes I corrected, and what I learned building a production-style task management system with PostgreSQL Row Level Security, finite state machines, and graph dependency cycle detection.

Database-first schema design & PostgreSQL Row Level Security

Task lifecycle modeled as a Finite State Machine

Graph traversal cycle detection for task dependencies

Server actions as a type-safe transactional backend layer

Immutable audit trail & server-side URL state filtering

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLSupabaseRow Level SecurityServer Actions

How I Built Busy: A Deep Dive into a Project & Task Management Platform

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Real-time & Distributed12 min read

September 4, 2026

Building Swift Chat: Turning a Simple Chat Idea into a Real-Time Collaboration App

A behind-the-scenes look at a full-stack real-time collaboration platform built with React, TypeScript, Express, MongoDB, Socket.IO, Cloudinary, and WebRTC peer calling.

Sub-50ms message latency with Socket.IO room architecture

P2P WebRTC audio/video calling flow & ICE candidate signaling

Redis adapter for multi-instance socket broadcasting

Background scheduled message execution via cron workers

ReactTypeScriptNode.jsMongoDBSocket.IOWebRTCRedis

Building Swift Chat: Turning a Simple Chat Idea into a Real-Time Collaboration App

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