Chirag SinglaExperimental Budget?A/B testing is a very common method used by popular websites to see whether the new look and feel or new algorithm is having a positive…Aug 29, 2020Aug 29, 2020
Chirag SinglaLearnings from Operational Excellence MeetingsOne of the interesting things which happens in my org is the Weekly Operational Excellence Meetings. All the P0/P1/P2 happened in the last…Aug 27, 2020Aug 27, 2020
Chirag SinglaEmbarrassing Bug: Datacenter down?Scenario: We encountered a situation where we did not see any traffic in a given DC.Aug 26, 2020Aug 26, 2020
Chirag SinglaDeveloper Productivity?How do you measure developer productivity? This is one of the questions which we have been asking ourselves a lot. I came across an…Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020
Chirag SinglaWeb crawler on popular website?Observations from the popular search engine crawling happening on my company website: 1) Volume of pages crawled in a day does not vary…Aug 23, 2020Aug 23, 2020
Chirag SinglaMerkle TreesMerkle trees is a tree based data structure in which each leaf node is a hash of a block of data, and each non-leaf node is hash of its…Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020
Chirag SinglaHDFS is dead?Context: “HDFS is dead and object stores like S3/GCP Buckets/Blob store is the way forward” came up in our office discussion.Jul 4, 2020Jul 4, 2020
Chirag SinglaAmazon Leadership PrinciplesAmazon leadership principles are very popular. People quote some of the leadership principles at work. Thought it might be a good idea to…Jul 4, 2020Jul 4, 2020
Chirag SinglaSafe data upgrade without downtime?Context: Application running in production. Application reads data from Nosql database like Cassandra/Aerospike/Memcached.Jun 28, 2020Jun 28, 2020