Arun Balachandran

Work

Live, in progress, paused, or abandoned. The ones that didn't work out taught me the most, so they stay too.

In progress
Microservices consolidation

Working out when splitting a system into services stops paying for itself — and how you would prove it. My MSc dissertation, currently mid-measurement.

Jun 2026 —
Paused
A dashboard I use every morning

Ugly, undocumented, genuinely useful. The write-up is mostly about why I stopped adding features to it.

Nov 2025 — Feb 2026
Abandoned
The one I gave up on

Two weeks in, the idea did not survive its first real user. It stays here because the post-mortem was the useful part.

Apr 2025 · 2 weeks