Welcome to Venki Notes — a small corner of the internet where I plan to think out loud.
Who I am
I’m Venki. By day I work in tech, mostly around databases, data, and AI. I’ve spent years watching teams wrestle with the same recurring problems — moving data without breaking it, scaling without re-platforming every two years, making sense of customer pain in systems that were never designed to surface it. A lot of what I write here will come from that vantage point.
But I am, like most people, not just one thing. So this blog won’t be either.
What I’ll write about
The plan is to keep it broad and honest — whatever I happen to be thinking carefully about that week. Roughly:
- Tech — databases, data platforms, AI, distributed systems, the fun and frustrating bits of building software at scale. Real customer problems, not vendor brochures.
- Travel — places I’ve been, things I noticed, why a particular trip stuck with me.
- Cooking — what I’ve been making, what worked, what didn’t. Probably a lot of recipes that started as one thing and ended as another.
- Cricket — because some opinions deserve to be written down even when nobody asked.
- DIY — small home projects, tools I bought and actually used, things I tried to fix and what I learned.
- Gardening — the slow patience of growing things, what’s working in my patch, what isn’t.
If that feels like a strange mix, it probably is. But I think the best blogs are the ones where you can hear the same person across the topics, not the ones that pick a niche and stay locked inside it.
Why I’m writing it
Three reasons, mostly:
- To think more carefully. Writing a thing forces you to figure out whether you actually believe it. That’s reason enough on its own.
- To leave a trail. Five years from now, I want to be able to look back and see how my thinking shifted — on tech, on cooking, on whatever.
- To meet people. The internet is at its best when one person writes something honest and another person says “huh, I thought I was the only one.”
What to expect
Posts will be irregular. Some weeks I’ll write twice, some months I won’t write at all. I’d rather post when I have something to say than feed a schedule.
I’ll keep things grounded — no clickbait, no listicles for the sake of listicles, no AI-generated filler. Just notes from someone who’s working through interesting problems and finds writing helps.
Thanks for being here. If something I write resonates, or you think I’m wrong about it, I’d love to hear from you.
— Venki