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Cricket Scale, Part 3 - The Not-So-Technical Grind
the unglamorous side of tech
Sep 20 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
Scaling with Karpenter: The Good and The Bad
A candid story of trading Cluster Autoscaler for flexibility in Kubernetes scaling.
Sep 17 • 
Tushar Khanka
Cricket Scale, Part 2 - Redis: A Silver Bullet With a Cost
Challenges with redis in action
Sep 11 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
Scaler : our in-house scaling solution
“nuts and bolts” walkthrough of how We tied Google Calendar to scaling logic.
Sep 4 • 
Tushar Khanka

August 2025

Introducing the Cricket Scale Series
Lessons From Building Probo
Aug 26 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
Cricket Scale, Part 1 — EC2 vs Kubernetes
Picking the Right Scaling Foundation
Aug 26 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
Thinking in Systems: A Builder’s View
Balancing speed and foresight
Aug 16 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
The Self-Aware Team
Building a Culture Where Everyone Knows What’s Next
Aug 14 • 
Aditya Chowdhry

July 2025

Platform Teams: Avoid Becoming a Catch-All
Real problems, hard lessons, and how to stay focused
Jul 28 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
Platform Teams and the Developer Experience Gap
Why Internal Platforms Succeed or Fail Based on DevX
Jul 28 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
Democratizing Ownership: The Secret to Scalable Teams
Building a culture where ownership is shared, not assigned.
Jul 28 • 
Aditya Chowdhry

June 2025

How we scaled our Monolith to execute 250Mn+ trades in a day?
This post was originally published on engineering.probo.in
Jun 22 • 
Aditya Chowdhry
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