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“We could not hire you based on signals we have and we could only take decision with data points we have” is the insight I had this week…

2021 has been an incredible year in terms of learnings both personal and professional front. I stepped into EM role during earlier part of…

There are different kind of databases. To name few: SQL Databases Key Value Stores Document store Graph Databases Wide column store Column…

Over past couple of years working on infrastructure teams this has been a constant discussion. Whether one should expose their…

I used to play age of empires a lot while at college. I love that game for multiple reasons. One of that is showing what happens when we…

This week I finally ran out of luck at work and cleaned up a database unwittingly. I meant not cleaned up in the sense removed unused data…

Debugging is quite the opposite of dopamaine feasting. Very frustrating while actively debugging and more often than not you are happy once…

I understand some version of this exists with datadog, but last I used it is tedious to setup and not all the efficient. Motivation We have…

As part of a new service that needs to be performant, I got a chance to play with Rust which I have been meaning to try for sometime. Rust…

A do and don’t I want to adhere to next one month and why I think they are awesome. Show up at your job everyday Figuratively we show up at…

This is my first foray into reading code through open source repositories and write down thoughts. Hope to do this on a regular basis. How I…

This week I got a chance to work on upgrading our kafka infrastructure which has been pending for a while. Instead of going Yolo, we decided…

Spent almost a whole day debugging a segmentation fault on a jenkins job. Context: I work on infrastructure team. This means from time to…

Had a discussion with a friend about utility of slack. I am on the camp slack is really great when you can reduce the cruft around it. Here…

Picked up this book from a twitter cause it was setup in Kashmir (non valley). Got intrigued by premise and the reviews it got. I was…

Had an interesting race condition which took a while to debug. Damn I forgot what this is about, will fill up as I can extract more details…

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