Vivek Pal

Systems engineer. Rust fundamentalist. Decentralized infra on Solana. Writing in public.

Currently in Vietnam

Building in the shadows compounds knowledge but limits reach. Writing in public forces clarity. Clarity scales better than merit. This is where I document what I build, break, and learn.

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What I'm Working On

$ROOTNEW

Own your stack. Root access to infrastructure. Launching on pump.fun

windnetwork

Decentralized data streaming for Solana

GossipRPC

Distributed RPC over gossipsub

Field Notes

Writing from infra trenches

Topics

Rust Sys/Infra Distributed Systems libp2p Gossipsub Kademlia Solana Data Indexing ZK/Privacy Stablecoins AI x Decentralization

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Field notes from the infrastructure trenches

8 min

What I learned building production systems that actually stay up. No theory, just scars.

2026-02-01

#Infrastructure#Systems#Production

Self-hosting isn't optional anymore (agents, auditability, sovereignty)

12 min

Why running your own infra went from hobby project to production requirement for AI agents.

2026-01-28

#AI#Infrastructure#Privacy#Sovereignty

Why Solana historical data retrieval is broken (and how we fix it)

10 min

The RPC nodes can't keep up. Let's talk about what actually works for historical data.

2026-01-20

#Solana#Infrastructure#Data#Distributed Systems