Backend engineer and former lawyer writing about distributed systems, legaltech, and Indian policy.
The reported plan of the new BJP government in West Bengal to shift the state secretariat back to the Writers’ Building in BBD Bagh, from Nabanna, may be presented as a pragmatic step and a return to heritage. But it is actually a failure of imagination.
Recently, I experienced a minor outage on a personal VM instance hosted on Google Cloud Compute. While the stakes were low, the process of diagnosing and resolving the issue, and then ensuring it doesn’t happen again, was a learning experience that I’d like to share.
In this post, I write about ping-pong - a project that aims at simulating how messages in a live chatroom (with multiple concurrent users) may get processed, using a Kafka messaging system.
In this post, I am listing down my understanding of Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM Trees, in short), based on my reading of the first part of Chapter 3 of ‘Designing Data-Intensive Applications’ by Martin Kleppmann.
This post captures the list of steps I followed to migrate a HTTP service from a Heroku dyno to a Google Cloud Platform instance powered by YugabyteDB cluster as the database.
In this post, I try to explain how tail call optimization can be used to make recursive functions (of certain kind) more efficient.
In this post, I discuss how time-slot collisions in a meeting scheduling application can be resolved. First, I discuss the business logic of determining a ‘time-slot conflict’. Second, I explain why we need transactions to prevent scheduling of concurrent conflicting meetings. Finally, I do a deep-dive on the different levels of isolation provided by database systems, to better understand why…
In this post, I try to answer the question “What is the internet and how does it really work?”
This post is about my third week at the Recurse Center.
In this post I discuss how I built my first web-app, RemindMe, using Clojure! The app is deployed here: https://remind.otee.dev