Writing & Publications

Writing & Publications

Published technical writing by Ishan Shah on replay-safe event-driven systems, Kafka, Debezium, Java consumers, AI agents, incident workflows, and evidence-first engineering practice.

Published Work

Technical articles

Public articles and publication pages that connect production distributed-systems experience with practical reliability patterns.

DZone | Sep 1, 2026

Designing Replay-Safe CDC Pipelines With Kafka, Debezium, and Recovery Contracts

A practical CDC architecture article on idempotent writes, deterministic projections, controlled replay workflows, reconciliation checks, and recovery evidence.

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HackerNoon | Aug 17, 2026

AI Agents Should Bring Receipts, Not Just Answers

An article on authority boundaries, draft-first workflows, evidence trails, and approval checkpoints for agentic engineering systems.

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Java Code Geeks | Jul 14, 2026

Building Idempotent Java Consumers for Replay-Safe Kafka Pipelines

A Java/Kafka article on consumer contracts, stable event IDs, durable acceptance records, duplicate suppression, and replay-safe business writes.

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HackerNoon | Jun 27, 2026

Building Event-Driven Systems That Can Recover With Confidence

A replayability article introducing Recovery Contracts for authoritative history, ordering boundaries, idempotency, replay scope, reconciliation, and evidence.

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Research & Review

Paper, review, and publication profile

Beyond public technical articles, Ishan's professional service includes IEEE-related peer review activity documented through Web of Science. Conference-paper drafts and research proposals stay out of the public publications list until accepted or published.

Replay-safe CDC and recovery contracts
Kafka consumer idempotency and operational replay
AI-agent authority, approval, and evidence trails
Incident-response agents and reliability workflows