Kubernetes Gateway API
Why Ingress Is Being Replaced and Which Gateway Controller to Pick
Roma Glushko's Blog
Learn about software engineering, architecture, distributed systems with Roma 📚
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What's OAuth2 Anyway?
Why the OAuth2 protocol was designed the way it is and how it works.
Papercups: Customer Service Platform
Designing a customer support platform with live chat features similar to Zendesk or Intercom.
OTel Collector
Telemetry Processing as a Service with OTel Collector
OTel SDK
Logs, metrics, traces collection in OTel SDK
Jupyter Kernel Architecture
How Jupyter executes, inspects, completes, and debugs code
Buy, Open Source, Build
When to buy, build or use open source solutions?
React Hooks
How I learned about hooks by upgrading this website
Communicate Through Code
Learn to communicate your ideas clearly while coding
Promotion Paradoxes
Every promotion makes you closer to being a low performer
The Nature of Distributed Systems
How distributed systems differ from single-node setups
Sunday Morning Problem
How a lazy Sunday morning reveals whether your habits are working for you or against you
360 Review is Dead
About the inefficiency of 360 reviews and how you could do better
Design LRU Cache
Have fun designing least-recently-used cache in Python
Heapify ✌️
How the priority queue and heap work: theory, implementation, complexity. Heap sort and other applications.
How I built my ML workstation 🔬
A full story about building a custom ML workstation. From picking parts to installing and using software.
K-Nearest Neighbors 👨👩👧👦
Theoretical aspects of the KNN algorithm. Where it can be applied and when it fails.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Play rock, paper, scissors game powered by computer vision
Power of No Action
Sometimes the best move is no move - why acting under uncertainty can do more harm than waiting
Factors Affecting Decision Making
A few rules to keep in mind when making decisions
Disadvantages are everywhere
Every choice comes with trade-offs - learning to see and accept them is what makes decisions stick
Measure and Improve
Improve yourself by measuring where you are right now
Just Ask
We often underestimate the power of simply asking - why we hesitate and what happens when we don't
The Normal Life
The comfortable, predictable life you imagine isn't what growth looks like - and that's okay
Focus on solutions, not on problems
Proactivity will make you version 2.0