Engineering on Lorbic

Why Explaining Technical Difficulty is Hard

Thu, 14 May 2026 01:00:00 +0530

“Can we just add a real-time visitor counter to the homepage? It’s just a query, right”?

Every engineer has heard some variation of this. On the surface, the logic is sound. You have data, you have a UI, and you want to connect them. In the world of business requirements, this is a solved problem. You write a line of code, and the feature exists.

But your database doesn’t care about business logic. It cares about Infrastructure Constraints.

AI Coding in 2026: Productivity Multipliers vs. Skill Replacements

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:00:00 +0530

“Write a REST API with authentication”.

I hit enter. Thirty seconds later, Claude spat out 400 lines of perfectly formatted Go code. JWT middleware, password hashing, error handling, even rate limiting. It looked professional. It looked production-ready.

It took me three hours to figure out why the token refresh logic had a race condition.

This is AI-assisted coding in 2026. It’s not magic. It’s not a replacement. It’s a very fast junior developer that never gets tired, never complains, and confidently makes mistakes you won’t catch unless you actually understand the architectural nuances of what you’re building.

Introducing CouchLens: A Query Analysis Tool for Couchbase

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0530

CouchLens is a client-side web application for analyzing Couchbase N1QL query performance. You feed it JSON exports from system:completed_requests, system:indexes, and schema inference results. It parses execution plans, computes metrics, detects inefficiencies, and generates a report showing where your queries are slow.

Everything runs in the browser. No data leaves your machine. The tool is a Progressive Web App, so you can install it and use it offline. The goal is to give database administrators and developers a way to understand query behavior without writing custom scripts or debugging raw JSON.

What Couchbase Taught Me About System Thinking

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:20:06 +0530

Couchbase Internals: Indexes, Queries, Consistency, and Performance

Introduction

Over the last few years I’ve lived deep inside backend systems, and for the past year and a half Couchbase has been my daily companion. Working with Go services that depend on Couchbase taught me that the real lessons aren’t in the marketing slides or quick‑start guides. They’re in the internals: how indexes are built, how queries are planned, how consistency flags change the story, and how durability levels quietly decide whether your system survives a failure or not.

Testing Types

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:32:00 +0000

Understanding different types of software testing is crucial for delivering a reliable application. Smoke Testing checks basic stability after a new build, while Sanity Testing verifies specific bug fixes or minor updates. Functional Testing ensures that features work as expected based on business requirements. Regression Testing prevents new changes from breaking existing functionality. End-to-End (E2E) Testing simulates real-world user workflows, and Performance Testing checks system speed, load handling capacity, and responsiveness. Implementing these (some or all) test types helps maintain software quality and prevent critical failures.

Analysis Paralysis in Engineering Teams

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:54:00 +0000

Analysis Paralysis in Engineering

In engineering, progress is key. However, sometimes teams get stuck in endless discussions, over-planning, and constant changes, delaying actual work. This situation is called “Analysis Paralysis.” It happens when people focus too much on making perfect decisions instead of moving forward with practical solutions.