Sarthak Makhija
Sarthak Makhija Databases & Storage Systems
Sarthak Makhija
Sarthak Makhija Databases & Storage Systems
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I'm Sarthak Makhija, a Principal Architect at Caizin. I write long-form essays on refactoring, storage engines, databases, and engineering trade-offs.

Writing for future-me.

Essays

2026
Inside a Query Engine (Part 5): From Syntax to Algebra
Inside a Query Engine (Part 4): Expressions and Precedence
Inside a Query Engine (Part 3): Handwritten Parser
Inside a Query Engine (Part 2): Thinking in Grammar
Inside a Query Engine (Part 1): Lexical Analysis
Inside a Query Engine: Introduction
Dissecting Go’s Benchmarking Framework
Refactoring in the age of AI
2025
Refactoring Mindset
2024
Behind the Mic: My journey to delivering a conference talk
Many flavors of Networking IO
Cache-Line Hash Table
A guide to Serializable Snapshot Isolation in Key/Value storage engine
Diving into Rust by building an assertions crate
2023
Designing an in-memory LFU cache
Bitcask - A Log-Structured Hash Table
WiscKey: Separating Keys from Values in SSD-Conscious Storage
Bloom filter
Code without automated tests? Are we serious?
Count-min sketch
2022
Persistent memory - Introduction
2021
Invoking C Code from Golang
Diving into Java Bytecode
2020
AWS Lambda - A Virtual Podcast
Concluding Serverless Journey
Testing Serverless Journey
Beginning Serverless Journey
2019
Invest In Blogging
2018
Kotlin DSL
Kotlin Wishlist for Java
Let’s deal with Legacy code
Let's define Legacy code
2017
Flips: Feature Flipping for Java