Samarth Batra
Senior Software Engineer. Currently AWS, and former Stripe.
Writing about reliability, scale, and systems that cannot fail.
Deep dives on bootstrapping, control planes, networking, edge systems, concurrency, and real incidents.
"I care deeply about correctness, not just uptime."
Current: AWS Config · Previously: AWS Route53 · Stripe
Tier-0 systems · DNS · Edge compute · HA infra
Featured Writing
Bootstrapping bare-metal securely at global scale
SoonHow we provision thousands of servers across regions while maintaining security guarantees
Why Tier-0 systems must break security rules
SoonThe paradox of building the foundation that everything else depends on
Designing for correctness under control-plane failure
SoonWhat happens when the system that manages your system goes down
How I think about infra interviews
SoonWhat to look for when hiring engineers who will build critical infrastructure
What I Write About
Distributed Systems
Building resilient systems that scale across regions and handle millions of requests
Infrastructure Reliability
Tier-0 systems, control planes, and what it takes to achieve five nines
Cloud Networking
DNS, edge compute, routing, and the invisible infrastructure that powers the internet
Concurrency
Single-box performance, threading models, and getting the most from your hardware
Real-world Postmortems
Learning from failures, incident response, and what actually breaks in production