Sahil NayakNotes on backend, infrastructure and building things.https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/I Ran a Local LLM Badly, and Learned Something Anywayhttps://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/running-a-local-llm-badly/https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/running-a-local-llm-badly/I tried running a quantized model on my own laptop out of curiosity and it was slow and my fan screamed, but I still learned more from it than any article had taught me.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe LAMP Stack Still Just Workshttps://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/lamp-stack-still-works/https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/lamp-stack-still-works/I set up Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP for a client project and it reminded me why this stack still refuses to die.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat Deploying on AWS Actually Taught Mehttps://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/deploying-on-aws/https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/deploying-on-aws/A small project pushed me into EC2, S3 and IAM for the first time, and this is what actually stuck with me.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTDitching nohup for systemdhttps://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/systemd-for-my-side-project/https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/systemd-for-my-side-project/How I stopped babysitting a Python script inside a tmux session and let systemd handle it properly.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTTrying to Understand LLM Inference (as a Beginner)https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/trying-to-understand-llm-inference/https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/trying-to-understand-llm-inference/I do not train models, I just got curious about why a chatbot reply takes longer on some days than others, so I went down a rabbit hole.Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTWhy I Built This Websitehttps://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/why-i-built-this-site/https://www.sahilnyk.xyz/blog/why-i-built-this-site/There is no portfolio template here and no fixed niche, it is just a place that is mine where I can write about whatever I want.Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT