<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mukund Tandon — Field Notes</title><description>Notes from building backend and AI infrastructure — high-throughput systems, narrated in my own voice.</description><link>https://mukundtandon.dev/</link><item><title>Six hundred thousand a second</title><link>https://mukundtandon.dev/blog/six-hundred-thousand-a-second/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mukundtandon.dev/blog/six-hundred-thousand-a-second/</guid><description>Building a Go log ingestor that scales from ~16K to over a million logs per second — a three-stage Kafka → buffer → ClickHouse pipeline, and the config changes that unlocked the throughput.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>distributed systems</category><category>go</category><category>clickhouse</category><category>kafka</category></item></channel></rss>