Palak Mathur

Software engineering, computing systems, leadership, and things I am trying to understand.

Recent writing

  1. Http Get, Open AI Agents and What it tells about API Governance This post explores the recent "hack" that Open AI Agents found on a Software development wiki
  2. Observing the world unfold at Starbucks Observing the world move at Starbucks
  3. Austin's Vibe This post is to just share my raw thoughts on University Town vibe of Austin downtown
  4. A Sunday Drive to Austin A Sunday drive from Dallas to Austin, with family time, an unexpectedly pleasant journey, and a predictably sleepless night
  5. Search and Keyboard Shortcuts on This Blog A short guide to the search overlay and the keyboard shortcuts on SystemHalted.
  6. Simplifying SystemHalted.in Why I simplified SystemHalted and made the writing the center of the site
  7. Why I love Omarchy Recent move to Omarchy and why it feels great
  8. GTIDs, Kafka Consumer Offsets, and What a Recovery Checkpoint Really Means A recent MySQL replication change made me reconsider a question from Kafka disaster recovery: does a checkpoint identify what was processed, or merely where processing should resume?
  9. Resource Integrity Belongs to the Resource, Not the API An operational tool may bypass a REST endpoint, but it must not bypass the resource contract.
  10. AI Governance Needs Accountability, Not Just Principles On AI ethics, software responsibility, collective intelligence, and why new technological rights need institutions that can actually enforce them.

Kartavya Path

Short essays on engineering leadership and management. ↗