Adetayo Akinsanya

unkletayo • Systems, Craft & Ideas

I like taking things apart to see how they work—whether that's a software system, a film score, or why a specific line in a book stays with you for years.

This platform (unkletayo.dev) is my public notebook holding technical notes, book takeaways, and personal essays on software, design, and life.

Recent Writing

Top 5 recent published articles & notes

Engineering Database Concurrency Anomalies: Dirty Reads, Non-Repeatable Reads, Phantoms & Lost Updates

Engineering Multi-Stage Build Architectures & Minimal Base Image Optimization

Engineering Frontend API Layer Architecture: REST, GraphQL, gRPC-Web, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) Pattern

Engineering Building a Circular Queue in Java: Array Ring Buffers and Modulo Math

Engineering Kafka Producer Internals: Tuning RecordAccumulator, batch.size & linger.ms

Engineering Series

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Java Collections & Concurrency

Linux Containers & Docker Primitives

Database Storage & Query Engines

Apache Kafka & Event Streaming

Kubernetes & Control Plane Architecture

Spring Boot & Reactive Systems

Distributed System Design

Frontend Web Architecture & Performance

Vitest Internals & Modern Testing Architecture