Oct 27, 2020How Internet is hacking humanityLet’s start with what is the internet? Internet is nothing but many innocent machines passing messages to each other in binary language. Whose messages do machines pass around? Humans. And yes it’s we who are bringing down humanity. Earlier human to human interaction played a key role in sharing experiences…7 min read7 min read
Nov 15, 2019How we built efficient load generator in 6 hrs ?When you lack resources you tend to become creative. My manager recently assigned our team with a task where we had to load test our newly implemented functionalities. We replied …Cool, consider it done! But wait you have just one day to scale test our API’s …figure out our latency…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Aug 5, 2019How machines get committed to each other(Part 1)?You can think distributed systems as a new planet where machines are like humans which are working together to achieve some targeted output. It could be storing data forever, or it could be some messaging systems which passes messages across systems etc. Like in the real world where people don’t…Ecommerce9 min readEcommerce9 min read
Aug 2, 2019Everyone wants a log in distributed systems !!Can you guess what is behind every successful implementation of a distributed systems or relational databases like mysql ? Well it is a very small concept called as log. In relational database world it is sometimes called as transactional log, journal or write ahead log (there might be many more). …Distributed Systems9 min readDistributed Systems9 min read
Aug 1, 2019Mom !! Where is my Black T-shirt?Have you faced a situation where you are not able to find your things and when you ask mom she magically finds it for you ? Well she may be using consistent hashing technique to search for your things :D ( My Mom is a gold medalist :D ). …Data Structures8 min readData Structures8 min read
Jul 30, 2019Think Serverless !! It is really awesome !We had an interesting problem and want to share our thought process which went into solving the problem. Our customers used to provide us a file containing millions to billions of rows and each row contains 1000’s of columns to process. We need to process these files and perform some…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Aug 4, 2018How to make URL cute ?This is a very famous interview question asked in many interviews. At first this problem looks so simple yet can be extended to be a very complex system. “Don’t judge a book by its cover :)” So i’m taking a stab at on how to design such a large system…Cloud Computing11 min readCloud Computing11 min read
