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Water Fasting 7 Days and Beyond
Disclaimer – the information provided is not expert advice. As all of us have different body types, whatever worked for me may not work for everyone. If you’re fasting, be conscious of how you feel. Context Today marks the 7th day of my water fasting “experiment.” I’ve always been curious about fasting for long periods…
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Git Internals Part I
Object Store Differences between Git and Relational DBs Ref:
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MemQ Pub/Sub + Kafka @ Pinterest
Data Flow MemQ Components Storage MemQ Data format Takeaways: References:
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Staff Software Engineer Archetypes
Tech Lead Architect Solver Right Hand This is what I think the different roles means: References:
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ChatGPT 3.5
If you lived in a cave and don’t know what is all the rave about ChatGPT, below here is a self introduction: One of OpenAI founders is Elon, hence the bias. A quick timeline of events Will ChatGPT take over Google Search? (Opinion) Takeaways: References:
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Postgresql -> Cockroach DB
Context: Options for Horizontally scalable databases (to be performant as datasize becomes larger) Decided at the time that Cockroach DB was the best solution. Migration steps required Rewriting incompatible SQL code Load testing Migration When to use CockroachDB? Who uses CockroachDB? Special mentions: Ref:
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SLATE Testing At Uber
The Traditional Approaches are below Testing Requirements: SLATE Tools to support SLATE testing Takeaways: Ref:
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How Netflix Makes Product Decisions?
Below: Netflix’s A/B test Tooling back in 2001 Takeways: Ref: Original Blog Netflix Culture Netflix AB Testing
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Reduce Logging Costs at Uber with CLP
Logging Architecture How CLP Works CLP Implementation in Hadoop Environment Invented Custom Floating Point Encoding Finally: Ref: Original Blog Lossless vs lossy compression Zstandard