I’m Kai Niemi, a software engineer and architect based in Stockholm. I’ve spent over 20 years building software, with a particular focus on distributed systems, transactional databases, and the challenges of consistency, concurrency, and failure handling.
My background spans hands-on software development, technical leadership, enterprise architecture, and pre-sales engineering.
About CloudNeutral
CloudNeutral is where I share technical articles, experiments, and lessons learned from building and working with distributed systems.
I write about distributed databases, transactional consistency, database performance, Java and Spring Boot, event-driven architecture, and the open-source projects I maintain.
Mostly it’s about trade-offs: what a design costs, what it buys, and what breaks when the assumptions change.
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