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Jatin Bansal — Backend, Distributed Systems & AI Engineering
Engineering Lead at Pluang, building crypto exchange, trading and investment platform. 7+ years in financial services - mostly distributed systems work with Kafka, Redis, and event-driven microservices.
Now learning to be an AI engineer. Notes under /ai-engineering.
Context vs Prompt Engineering: The Evolution from Instructions to Intelligence
Exploring the shift from prompt engineering to context engineering in AI systems, understanding context rot, and why managing context is becoming more critical than crafting prompts.
StampedLock: How to Use Locks with Near Lock-Free Reads in Java
Learn how Java’s StampedLock enables near lock-free reads with optimistic locking, why it’s useful for virtual threads and read-heavy workloads, and how to use it safely.