Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogFrom RPC to transactions and durable executionsI spent some time reading about “Durable Execution Engines” (eg: Temporal) and explored possible connections to earlier concepts like…May 23May 23
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogNotes on the Lakehouse paperI decided to re-read this impactful paper about data lakehouse from 2021 which talks about the “lakehouse” architecture within data…Feb 21Feb 21
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogBook review (partial): Java Generics and CollectionsThe book Java Generics and Collections (O’Reilly 2007) by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler provides a grand tour of generics as available…Nov 8, 2024Nov 8, 2024
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogBook review: What is ChatGPT doing… and why does it work?This was a nice and understandable introduction to ChatGPT, by the noted scientist Stephen Wolfram who is also the creator of Mathematica…Nov 5, 2024Nov 5, 2024
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogJava Annotations — a conceptual overviewI’ve been a casual user of annotations in code for many years but had never bothered to understand how exactly they work, or why they even…Dec 25, 2021Dec 25, 2021
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogModern Data Stack Conference 2021 — my notesI heard about a recent conference called “Modern Data Stack 2021” which seemed interesting. I watched some of their talks and learnt quite…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogBook Review: The Four Steps to the EpiphanyThis is actually two books masquerading as one. The first is full of great advice on how to identify a genuine customer need and validate…Oct 1, 2021Oct 1, 2021
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogUsing the lens of Disruptive Innovation to find 10x product experiencesAfter attending a conference called The Makers Summit a couple of weeks back where I saw two founders talk about “10x” products, I figured…Apr 1, 2021Apr 1, 2021
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogNotes on the AWS Firecracker paperThe AWS Firecracker paper is fascinating because Amazon has implemented a new Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) which closely matches the…Apr 1, 2021Apr 1, 2021
Published inPramod Biligiri’s BlogNotes on Database TransactionsGiven that database transactions have been around for decades, I was surprised to find that some concepts and implementations still don’t…Dec 15, 2020Dec 15, 2020
