I’ve been a casual user of annotations in code for many years but had never bothered to…
I heard about a recent conference called “Modern Data Stack 2021” which seemed…
This is actually two books masquerading as one. The first is full of great advice on how to identify a genuine customer need and validate it before creating a company around it. In my opinion, you should absolutely read this part, ideally 1–2 years…
The AWS Firecracker paper is fascinating because Amazon has implemented a new Virtual Machine…
Given that database transactions have been around for decades, I was surprised to find that some concepts…
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…
If you are familiar with Java or C/C++, understanding the assignment operator (=) in…
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.
