Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Dec 14, 2018How to not feel like an imposterHave you ever felt like you don’t know what you’re doing? Have you ever felt like everyone is going to find out any time now that you’re a complete fraud? Have you ever thought you somehow managed to convince everyone you’re smart and know your stuff? Welcome to the club…Imposter Syndrome5 min readImposter Syndrome5 min read
Nov 15, 2018Toxic Jobs and The Tech IndustryI did a Twitter thread on this topic a while ago and I’ve some thoughts I’ve wanted to gather for a while on this topic, so I’m combining them into a (hopefully useful) blog post. You go to work everyday and you want to feel excited but something always…Mental Health5 min readMental Health5 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Mar 22, 2018Robustness in Complex Systems: an academic article summaryToday, we’re going to look at the paper titled “Robustness in Complex Systems” published in 2001 by Steven D. Gribble. All pull quotes and figures are from the paper. This paper argues that a common design paradigm for systems is fundamentally flawed, resulting in unstable, unpredictable behavior as the complexity…Programming7 min readProgramming7 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Feb 12, 2018A quick introduction to Docker tagsIf you’ve worked with Docker even for a little while, I bet you’ve come across tags. They often look like “my_image_name:1” where the part after the colon is known as a tag. The tag is not always specified when tagging images, but we’ll get to the bottom of that later. …Docker4 min readDocker4 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Feb 3, 2018A Design Methodology For Reliable Software Systems: An Academic Article SummaryLet’s dig into A Design Methodology For Reliable Software Systems published by Barbara Liskov in 1972. The focus of this paper is on how to make reliable software systems and the techniques that can help us achieve that. Reliability here implies that a system works as expected under a given…Tech5 min readTech5 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Jan 28, 2018Program design in the Unix environment: an academic article summaryToday, let’s take a look at “Program Design in the Unix Environment” published in 1983 by Pike and Kernighan. The paper opens by listing why Unix has been successful, and then comments on the Unix philosophy and its benefits. …Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Dec 4, 2017Building on Quicksand: A SummaryLet’s try to break down the paper “Building On Quicksand” published by Pat Helland and David Campbell in 2009. All pull quotes are from the paper. The paper focuses on the design of large, fault-tolerant, replicated distributed systems. It also discusses its evolving based on changing requirements over time. …Distributed Systems7 min readDistributed Systems7 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Oct 30, 2017Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems: A SummaryThis article presents a summary of the paper “Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems” published by Eric Brewer & Amando Fox in 1999. All unattributed quotes are from this paper. The paper deals with the trade-offs between consistency and availability (CAP) for large systems. …Distributed Systems4 min readDistributed Systems4 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Oct 11, 2017Understanding the Raft consensus algorithm: an academic article summaryThis post summarizes the Raft consensus algorithm presented in the paper In Search of An Understandable Consensus Algorithm by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout. All pull quotes are taken from that paper. Raft: Raft is a distributed consensus algorithm. It was designed to be easily understood. It solves the problem of…Tech8 min readTech8 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Oct 2, 2017Want to learn how Viewstamped Replication works? Read this summary.This article will distill the contents of the academic paper Viewstamped Replication Revisited by Barbara Liskov and James Cowling. All quotations are taken from that paper. It presents an updated explanation of Viewstamped Replication, a replication technique that handles failures in which nodes crash. …Technology11 min readTechnology11 min read
