Kushal BaralKushal Baral is a curious software engineer building useful software and writing about technology, systems, and solving real problems.https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/enDatabase indexes: faster reads, slower writes, better decisionshttps://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/database-indexes-tradeoffs/https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/database-indexes-tradeoffs/A practical guide to database indexes, their real trade-offs, and how to decide which queries deserve one.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdatabasesperformancebackendIntegrating eSewa in a web app: the working setuphttps://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/integrate-esewa-nodejs/https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/integrate-esewa-nodejs/A practical walkthrough of the eSewa payment flow: form checkout, signature verification, and the sandbox-to-production checklist.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTesewapaymentsIntegrating Fonepayhttps://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/integrate-fonepay/https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/integrate-fonepay/A complete developer's guide to integrating the Fonepay Merchant API into a web application, from credentials to transaction verification.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTfonepaypaymentsA small place for practical engineering noteshttps://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/welcome/https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/welcome/What to expect from this blog: focused integration guides, useful code examples, and the details that documentation sometimes leaves out.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTweb-developmentThe web dev toolbox I actually reach forhttps://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/web-dev-toolbox/https://blog.baralkushal.com.np/blog/web-dev-toolbox/A long-form tour of the tools, libraries, and mental models I keep coming back to: Node versions, testing, deploy previews, and the small scripts that save real time.Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTweb-developmenttools