Indu Shekhar Jha

Writing

I write about backend engineering, AI systems, RAG pipelines, systems programming, and competitive programming. I aim to write the article I wish existed when I was building something.

• 15 June 2026

  FastAPI in Production: Patterns I Wish I Knew Earlier

  Real patterns from building multi-tenant analytics APIs at scale: async database sessions, RBAC middleware, ClickHouse integration, Redis caching, and structured logging that actually works.

  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • ClickHouse
  • Backend
• 1 April 2025

  What I Learned Building a Production RAG System

  Lessons from building a RAG pipeline that handles 10,000+ retrieval requests: chunking strategies, reranking, agentic pipelines, and the LLM benchmarks that actually matter.

  • RAG
  • LlamaIndex
  • Python
  • LLMs
  • FastAPI