Sunday, November 30, 2025

Review : Facebook Memcache Paper

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Introduction Facebook (Meta) application handles billions of requests per second. The responses are built using thousands of items that need...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Data Storage For Analytics And AI

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For a  small or medium sized company storing all the data in relational database like Postgresql or MySQL is sufficient.  Perhaps if analyti...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

What Does Adding AI To Your Product Even Mean?

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Introduction I have been asked this question multiple times: My management sent out a directive to all teams to add AI to the product. But I...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

CRDT Tutorial: Conflict Free Replication Data Types

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Have you ever wondered how Google docs, Figma, Notion provide real time collaborative editing? The challenge is : What happens when 2 user...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Cache in front of a slow database ?

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  Should You Front a Slow Database with a Cache? Most of us have been there: a slow database query is dragging down response times, dashboa...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Unsung Heroes Behind Your AI Coding Assistant

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While everyone's talking about ChatGPT and tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot transforming how we code, let's shine a l...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

JDK 21 Virtual threads: The end of regular threads ? Not quite.

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 A question I get asked all the time: If JDK 21 supports virtual threads, do I ever need to use regular threads ? Java 21 brought us virtual...