tianle chenTech Debt is Fun in FactorioFor some reason or another, dealing with scaling challenges is fun in Factorio (well, people do pay money for it)! Here I’ll illustrate how…7 min read·Oct 10, 2022----
tianle chenWhy can’t I just cron my batch pipeline?Say you’ve created an application to extract value out of data, now you need to rerun a series of steps periodically to generate new data…3 min read·Sep 19, 2022--1--1
tianle chenNew Final Final (2) Copy: Ideas in Version ControlThere comes a time in every project when one has to come to terms with the mess that they have made. The number of files are sprawling and…6 min read·Jul 26, 2022--1--1
tianle chenComputations on Distributed DatasetsOverview on the whys and how's of computations on distributed datasets — and what’s this Map Reduce thing anyway?5 min read·Jan 30, 2022--1--1