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Nov 2, 2020

TiDB: A Raft based HTAP database (Paper notes)

TiDB is an interesting new database, and PingCAP is the company driving most of its development. Recently I read the paper written about it, titled TiDB: A Raft based HTAP database, partly due to my interest in its Rust-based TiKV component. I…

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Jul 3, 2020

Kubernetes — an overview of concepts: Part 1

I decided to start learning about Kubernetes (k8s) although I have not used it in production yet. These are my notes from the first part of the comprehensive book “Kubernetes in Action”. The second part gets into k8s’s internals. I will write about…

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May 16, 2020

Docker — a conceptual overview

Recently I learnt a bit about Docker while using it on a project. I read large parts of a well written book called “Docker Deep Dive” by Nigel Poulton, and some other articles. Here are my notes about some key highlights of Docker.

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Sep 28, 2020

Learn Rust: Assignment and Memory Semantics

If you are familiar with Java or C/C++, understanding the assignment operator (=) in…

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Dec 14, 2020

Notes on Database Transactions

Given that database transactions have been around for decades, I was surprised to find that some concepts…

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Jul 12, 2020

Kubernetes — an overview of concepts: Part 2

This post summarizes the internal architecture of…

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Jun 14, 2020

Book review: The Effective Executive

This is a crisp booklet by the famous management consultant Peter Drucker. It focuses on a few…

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Jul 17, 2020

Kubernetes Autoscaling — an overview

This post describes the features k8s provides for Automated Scaling of applications. This is Part 3 of a series. Part 1 is an Introduction to K8S and Part 2 talks about Kubernetes Internals.

k8s can automate horizontal scaling of pods and…

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Jun 7, 2020

Book review: It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

I read Jason Fried and David H Hansson’s book “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work” and found it underwhelming. While the authors advocate a specific approach to running companies and building software, they base it all on the success of just…

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Jun 22, 2020

Book review: The Effective Executive

This is a crisp booklet by the famous management consultant Peter Drucker. It focuses on a few time tested general practices and hammers them home nicely rather than getting lost in the weeds — https://medium.com/pramod-biligiris-blog/book-review-the-effective-executive-854f69d04fd

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