About Me
Iqbal
Software Engineer & Writer
Building reliable systems, one commit at a time.
I’m a software engineer based in Indonesia, focused on distributed systems and platform reliability. I’ve spent years building and maintaining infrastructure that needs to stay up — the kind where a bug at 3 AM means real consequences.
This blog is where I document what I’m learning and thinking: database internals, system design, on-call culture, and the occasional book that reshapes how I approach problems.
Get in touch: iqbal@zero-one-group.com
Areas of expertise
Development principles
Simple over clever
The best code is the code your teammate can understand at a glance. Cleverness is a liability in production.
Observe everything
If you can't measure it, you can't debug it at 3 AM. Metrics, logs, and traces are first-class citizens.
Design for change
The only constant is that requirements change. Build systems that are easy to refactor, easy to replace.
Reliability is cultural
Resilience doesn't come from a tool — it comes from shared ownership, blameless postmortems, and a team that cares.