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When a Form Stops Being Just a Form
How we built one reusable, type-safe, configuration-driven form rendering engine for complex government digital services — without a visual builder, and without rebuilding the UI for every workflow.
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Shubham Ravani - Engineering
Detecting Geographical Anomalies: When Candidates Choose Exam Centres Far From Home
Raw distance is a bad measure of a suspicious exam-centre choice. Ranking how many closer centres a candidate skipped — after cleaning messy address text into coordinates — is the question that actually flags outliers at scale.
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Rahul Rawat - Engineering
Give your CI pipeline its own Kubernetes cluster
Why the riskiest workload in your cluster is probably the one building your containers — Docker-in-Docker risks, CI build pods, blast-radius isolation, and the etcd operations nobody talks about until the second cluster.
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Charan Yandrapu - Engineering
Search that actually finds things: indexing nested Payload CMS content into Typesense
What happens when your CMS stops looking like a blog, and your search index has to catch up — flattening Payload globals, extracting Lexical text, and keeping Typesense in sync without a cron job.
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Rekha Singh - Engineering
Building Modern Data Repositories: Architecture for Search, Semantic Retrieval, and RAG
How we design modern data repositories in practice: ingestion, metadata, durable storage, hybrid retrieval, and RAG for systems that stay auditable and operable.
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Tarun Joshi
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