Goutham City
The world and thoughts of Goutham Veeramachaneni

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Nov
13
Architecting for multitenancy

Architecting for multitenancy

Ever since I wrote the ClickHouse post, it has been living in my head rent-free. I was thinking a lot
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Nov
07
Notes on ClickHouse Scaling

Notes on ClickHouse Scaling

I spent some time playing around with ClickHouse to understand how it scales and what it takes to operate it.
8 min read
Jul
22
Debugging CSS with Claude Code

Debugging CSS with Claude Code

tldr; claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest I got a new request for my hardcover-embed service: to be
4 min read
Jul
14
Thoughts on building with AI

Thoughts on building with AI

Those who know me know that I have been an AI skeptic and slow on its uptake. I built a
9 min read
Jul
14
Sampling is tracing's weakness

Sampling is tracing's weakness

Distributed tracing is AWESOME! I saw it's power more than 6 years ago, and I've been
2 min read
Apr
20
Learnings from my first magazine

Learnings from my first magazine

As my sabbatical was approaching, I was searching for ideas on what I could learn. I was toying with the
4 min read
Apr
10
Searching for the Great Good Place

Searching for the Great Good Place

I just finished reading The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. It was originally written in 1989, but it is
10 min read
Mar
28
Sabbatical kicks off and April plans

Sabbatical kicks off and April plans

I originally planned to take a sabbatical from May 1st to July 31st; however, I couldn’t really wait and
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Jan
26
SLOs are not just about error budgets

SLOs are not just about error budgets

I started my career at Grafana Labs, building and running our hosted Prometheus solution on top of Cortex (now Mimir)
6 min read
Jan
16
7 years: engineering to PM and back

7 years: engineering to PM and back

A few months back, I wrote a blog post on the role of PMs in developer tooling. That was me
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