I write about systems I build.https://pavanmanishd.github.io/en-usTue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pavanmanishd.github.io/posts/protobuf-encode-cpu/https://pavanmanishd.github.io/posts/protobuf-encode-cpu/A Go gRPC service spent 36% of its time writing map entries into protobuf buffers. Generated marshal methods cut that to 5% and 72,002 allocations to 1, and the bytes on the wire did not change.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pavanmanishd.github.io/posts/scaling-vector-search/https://pavanmanishd.github.io/posts/scaling-vector-search/Queries that ask for up to five thousand nearest neighbors. What I built for them, how it compares with Qdrant and with a graph index of my own, and how it works.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT