Ritesh Sharma — Writing

Ritesh Sharma — Writing Case studies and notes on Java distributed systems, fintech trading platforms, open source, and dependable AI. https://riteshsharma.dev/ 2026-10-18T00:00:00+05:30 Ritesh Sharma https://riteshsharma.dev/ https://riteshsharma.dev/apple-touch-icon.png © 2026 Ritesh Sharma Cutting a trading platform's recovery from 90+ minutes to 7 https://riteshsharma.dev/writing/tier1-recovery/ 2026-10-18T00:00:00+05:30 2026-10-18T00:00:00+05:30

How parallel Cassandra token-range loading, Apache Ignite cache topology, and staged cluster formation gave a Tier-1 multi-region trading platform a 13× faster restart path.

A hash collision, a wrong diff, and my first open-source PR https://riteshsharma.dev/writing/javers-hash-collision/ 2026-10-18T00:00:00+05:30 2026-10-18T00:00:00+05:30

JaVers was silently dropping NewObject changes because two global IDs can share a Java hashCode. Debugging it in production, fixing it upstream (PR #1454), and why we patch upstream instead of pinning.