Wail Bentafat's Blog
Articles by Wail Bentafat on distributed systems, backend engineering, and software architecture.
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Vellum Part 3: What We Won, What We Lost
- #Python
- #MongoDB
- #ODM
- #Retrospective
- #Architecture
01 Nov 2025 | 2 min read
Vellum Part 2: Architecture Decisions That Almost Broke Us
- #Python
- #MongoDB
- #Architecture
- #Pydantic
- #ODM
15 Oct 2025 | 2 min read
Vellum Part 1: Typing MongoDB at the Speed of Thought
- #Python
- #MongoDB
- #ODM
- #Type Safety
- #Pydantic
01 Oct 2025 | 2 min read
When You Run UPDATE, It Doesn't Really Update
- #PostgreSQL
- #MVCC
- #VACUUM
- #Internals
- #Performance
10 Sept 2025 | 2 min read
What Actually Happens When You Tap Go on Google Maps
- #Algorithms
- #Graph Theory
- #Geospatial
- #Systems
- #Routing
15 Aug 2025 | 3 min read
Circuit Breakers in Distributed Systems — and the Go Library I Built
- #Go
- #Distributed Systems
- #Circuit Breaker
- #Reliability
- #Open Source
01 Aug 2025 | 3 min read