Stochastic Stories

Lessons on Delivering a Large Project

I recently led teams in my org to complete a 2-year project that re-architected a big data processing platform. I gave an internal talk about some lessons we learned in this project. I am sharing those lessons here as I think they might benefit engineers outside…

How to Solve Software Problems

As software engineers, a big part of our job is to solve software problems, big or small. Big software problems are ambiguous and require lots of thinking, discussion, and debate. Typical big software problems are to improve architecture efficiency, to propose technical…

Using CRDT to Resolve Conflicted Operations

In the conversation I had with some software engineers, I realized that the concept of CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) is not well known. I want to raise the awareness of the ubiquitousness of out-of-order, duplicated operations/data in…

Tuning My IntelliJ IDE

Introduction

I have been using IntelliJ IDE for Java development (occasionally Javascript development) for more than 3 years now. It’s probably the biggest application (in terms of the amount of resources it consumes) running on my working laptop. Even…