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I'm Raza Basit. I design and build distributed backend infrastructure, high-throughput services, and developer tooling. Here I write about production post-mortems, systems failure modes, and performance tradeoffs.
raza@build:~ (zsh)
❯whoami --verbose
{
"name": "Raza Basit",
"role": "Systems & Backend Engineer",
"domains": ["Distributed Systems", "Data Infrastructure"],
"focus": ["Protocol Design", "Performance"],
"status": "building safe-sqlite-mcp-go"
}
❯./server --listen=:8080
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A single-binary Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in Go that safely exposes SQLite databases to AI agents with immutable connection guardrails.
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