all essays

"D" in ACID - Durability 19th Jul system design databases

"I" in ACID - Isolation 5th Jul system design databases

"C" in ACID - Consistency 2nd Jul system design databases

"A" in ACID - Atomicity 28th Jun system design databases

Architectures in Distributed Systems 22nd Jun system design

Mistaken Beliefs of Distributed Systems 17th Jun system design

Fork Bomb 9th Jun security

Chained Comparison Operators in Python 27th Apr python python internals

Designing Taxonomy on a Relational DB 18th Apr databases system design

The Weird Walrus 29th Mar python internals python

Fully Persistent Arrays 14th Feb data structures algorithms

Persistent Data Structures - An Introduction 7th Feb data structures

Constant Folding in Python 10th Jan python internals python

String Interning in Python 20th Dec python internals python

A Simple Recursion Tree Visualizer for Python 13th Dec python

Approximate Count-Distinct using Flajolet Martin Algorithm 6th Dec algorithms

2Q Cache Management Algorithm 29th Nov algorithms databases

Israeli Queues 22nd Nov data structures

1D Procedural Terrain Generation 16th Nov algorithms python

Set Similarity using Jaccard Similarity Coefficient and MinHash 8th Nov algorithms

Time Series Smoothing - Making Aberrations Stand Out 1st Nov algorithms

Constant Time LFU 23rd Aug algorithms

Morris's Algorithm for Approximate Counting 2nd Aug algorithms

Slowsort - A Pessimal Sorting Algorithm 26th Jul algorithms

Bitcask - A Log-Structured Fast KV Store 19th Jul databases

Phi φ Accrual Failure Detection 12th Jul algorithms

Deciphering Repeated-key XOR Ciphertext 4th Jul cryptography

Deciphering Single-byte XOR Ciphertext 21st Jun cryptography

Making Python Integers Iterable 14th Jun python python internals

Powering Inheritance in C using Structure Composition 7th Jun data structures

The RUM Conjecture 31st May system design

Consistent Hashing 24th May algorithms system design

Integer Caching in Python 17th May python python internals

Fractional Cascading - Speeding up Binary Searches 10th May algorithms

Copy-on-Write Semantics 3rd May data structures system design

Midpoint Insertion Strategy in MySQL LRU Cache 26th Apr databases algorithms

Building Finite State Machines with Python Coroutines 19th Apr python

Better Ranking using Bayesian Average 12th Apr algorithms

Sliding Window based Rate Limiter 5th Apr system design

Inverse Document Frequency 6th Mar algorithms

Eight Rituals to be a Better Programmer 28th Feb productivity

Personalize your Python Prompt 21st Feb python

Pseudorandom Numbers using Cellular Automata - Rule 30 14th Feb algorithms

Function Overloading in Python 7th Feb python

Isolation Forest Algorithm for Anomaly Detection 28th Jan algorithms python

Image Steganography 17th Jan cryptography

Super Long Integers in Python 10th Jan python python internals

Changing Python 3rd Jan python python internals

Stop an Iterating Loop 6th Sep benchmarks

Fast and Efficient Pagination in MongoDB 6th Jun databases benchmarks

Benchmark Pagination Strategies in MongoDB 2nd Jun databases benchmarks

Why MongoDB's cursor.skip() is Slow? 4th Jun databases

Sleepsort and Concurrency in Golang 16th Jul algorithms

HTTP Requests using Netcat 5th Jul python

Multiple MySQL server running on same Ubuntu server 13th May databases

Setting up Graphite using Nginx on an Ubuntu server 14th Dec monitoring

Setting up Graphite and Grafana on an Ubuntu server 14th Dec monitoring

Publish python package on PyPI 10th Nov python