<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Sanam Pakuwal</title><description>Notes on .NET, distributed systems, databases, performance, and AI engineering.</description><link>https://aswinmainali.com.np/</link><item><title>Hello, sanam.me: why I&apos;m starting a blog</title><link>https://aswinmainali.com.np/blog/hello-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aswinmainali.com.np/blog/hello-world/</guid><description>Why this blog exists and what I plan to write about: .NET, distributed systems, databases, performance, and AI engineering.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cutting search latency from seconds to under 100ms</title><link>https://aswinmainali.com.np/blog/search-latency-opensearch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aswinmainali.com.np/blog/search-latency-opensearch/</guid><description>Moving product search off full-table wildcard scans and onto OpenSearch, with feature flags so rollback is a config change.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Taking a single-region app to multi-region with SQL Server</title><link>https://aswinmainali.com.np/blog/multi-region-sql-server/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aswinmainali.com.np/blog/multi-region-sql-server/</guid><description>Central writes, SQL Server transactional replication to regional read replicas, and cross-region cache invalidation.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>