Project case studies as systems notes.

How do you build a honeypot that resists automated fingerprinting from tools like Masscan and ZMap?

RustTokioTCPnftables

36k

Connections/sec

106µs

Migration Latency

Security & Networking

Cryptography

1 record

QuantumLock

Can post-quantum algorithms meet latency requirements on commodity CPU-only hardware?

Rustringpqcryptoserde

<50ms

Keygen Latency

Keygen Reduction

Cryptography

Distributed Systems

2 records

Raft

Case Study

How do you guarantee exactly one leader in a distributed cluster under concurrent failures?

RustTokioAxumConsensus

<1second

Re-election Time

Cluster Size

Distributed Systems

SmartQueue

Next.jsFastAPITypeScriptPython

How do you build a task scheduler that improves its priority decisions over time without human intervention?

1→5pods (HPA)

Worker Scaling

<100

Scheduling Latency

Distributed Systems

Systems Programming

2 records

HuffSpace

How do you compress multi-GB files with Huffman coding without running into single-threaded throughput limits?

Rustrayonclapserde

40–60%

Compression Ratio

~3.8x

Speedup vs Single-thread

Systems Programming

SysRift

CLinuxptraceProcess Tracing

How do you reproduce a non-deterministic program failure without modifying the program?

~15% slowdown

Overhead vs Native

100%

Syscalls Intercepted

Systems Programming