Apr 3Amazon QLDB — Pandemic ShenanigansHey Folks!! I have been working from the office for the past couple of months now and an interesting sketch note piqued my interest. I have pasted the sketch for easy reference. Jerry Hargrove sketched the sketch note for future Amazonians’ and it was an interesting visual. The sketch talked…Qldb2 min read
Oct 2, 2021In Case you missed it….Hey Folks!! I am feeling old school today and therefore will write about a feature which social media products like twitter use to snoop on your privacy or as some people like to call it, help you find relevant content. I was scrolling twitter yesterday and found an interesting “In…Machine Learning2 min read
Sep 30, 2021Kotlin and Java — Initial thoughts!!Hey Folks! I recently started on a project which is implemented in Kotlin. They built this project sometime back, and I was curious about the choice of Kotlin. I started researching about what Kotlin brings to the table and also why Kotlin, as a programming language, is gaining steam. In…Kotlin3 min read
Sep 27, 2021Viratians — Always and Forever!Champions keep playing until they get it right. — Billie Jean King Namaste, Mitro! The title of the post might give you minor cringe, but I request you to bear with me. I am writing this post after a couple of beers and, of course, catching up with the news…Cricket4 min read
Sep 26, 2021Go — Learnings!!‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.’–Benjamin Franklin. Hey ya’ll! This post is going to be about Go — A programming language which is famous for its most meteoric rise in distributed applications. I used this language in an internal project and…Distributed Systems3 min read
Sep 25, 2021Shenanigans in Undergrad School!Life is either — a daring adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller Ola Amigos! Today I am feeling a bit of a story-teller and will narrate a legend from the days which were some of the best days of my life lived so far. Rumour has it, the characters involved…Hostel4 min read
Sep 20, 2021Leader Election using Dynamo DB Lock ClientA distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. — Leslie Lamport Hey Folks!! It’s time for some fragments from the work life of AD. …Distributed Systems5 min read
Sep 14, 2021Experiences in a Melting Pot - “California”Experience is a private, very largely, a speechless affair. — James Baldwin Having lived all my life in a country known as “The Golden Bird”, I took an intra-company transfer to fulfill my American dream. Pandemic had just started and world was observing a black swan event. Offices were closed…California3 min read
Sep 12, 2021From Rolling down a Piste to riding a Bunny-Slope!!Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward. — John C. Maxwell Hey Folks, AD is back again with another bite from his life. Today I'll talk about how my hunger for dopamine enabled me to try skiing for the first time in my life and also ace it like…Skiing4 min read
Sep 8, 2021From a gourmand to an ascetic!!This quotation from Clay is a mantra which is reiterated by Mark Zuckerberg and forms the core of Facebook's software development teams. I, being born into a family of lifetime entrepreneurs, have that entrepreneurial spirit instilled in me. I am an ardent believer in moving at a swift pace and…Move Fast Break Things4 min read