Dispatched from Bengaluru, India
Write code. Chase trails. // MERN · Full-Stack · Perpetual Learner
Full-stack developer in the garden city. Building things for the web all week, disappearing into the hills on weekends. This is where both worlds get documented.
Bengaluru, Karnataka
13.06°N 77.58°E · 920m
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dispatches
From the field
Recent Writings
Notes on building things, shipping code, and figuring it all out along the way.
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Exponential Backoff with Jitter — Part 1: The Problem
Why naive retries cause thundering herd, and the three tools that make retries safe at scale: timeouts, exponential backoff, and jitter.
19 Mar 2026 3 min
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Exponential Backoff with Jitter — Part 2: The Implementation
A production-ready Node.js implementation with AbortController timeouts, full jitter backoff, Retry-After support, structured logging, and paginated fetching.
19 Mar 2026 3 min
Quick learnings
Today I Learned
One thing a day. Small discoveries, captured before they fade.
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What's in the pack
The Stack
Reliable tools. Well-worn. No fuss.
Frontend
React
Component UIs, hooks, context. Astro for static.
Backend
Node
Express APIs, REST, auth, middleware.
Database
Mongo
Flexible schemas, aggregations, indexing.
Infra
Linux
VPS, Nginx, Certbot, GitHub Actions.
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Sushank Sinha
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka · 13.06°N 77.58°E
Full-stack dev in the garden city. Weekdays building web apps. Weekends hunting trails. This blog is where both meet.
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