<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Engineering Notes, Shoumique Hasan</title><description>Notes on distributed systems, performance and the things that break in production.</description><link>https://shoumique.dev/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Why parallel processing isn’t automatically faster</title><link>https://shoumique.dev/writing/why-parallel-processing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://shoumique.dev/writing/why-parallel-processing/</guid><description>Adding workers doesn’t add throughput: the bottleneck usually lives somewhere else, and finding it is the actual work.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>