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Thamarai Manalan

Deep dives, technical concepts, and detailed posts about my engineering journey.

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Understanding TanStack Query: Stale Data, Mutations, and Cache2026-08-19

A practical understanding of TanStack Query, server state, caching, stale data, mutations, and query invalidation.

How I Learned to Understand a Frontend Codebase2026-08-18

A practical reflection on how I learned to analyze a Next.js frontend codebase, understand technology choices, work with AI-generated code, and think beyond the tech stack when building software.

What is Artificial Intelligence?2026-07-06

Demystifying AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and LLMs in modern application development.