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Articles on distributed systems, backend engineering, Linux, cloud infrastructure and the craft of building reliable software.
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The functions which calls itself with a exit condition There are two common types of recursion : Head Recursion: Where you call the recursion function first and perform operations which you need to d
Rust
My early experience learning Rust and why its approach to error handling, mutability, and compiler guidance immediately stood out.
Distributed Systems
A concise introduction to leader election, log replication, and why Raft makes distributed consensus easier to understand.
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Cheat sheet for myself
rust
I made Rust panic… and somehow I liked it 🥹
databases
What the database does after you hit enter
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CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service where we define the resources we need to deploy in AWS in a coding manner. Generally, CloudFormation uses JSON or YAML for declaring resources
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Ever had files named final_code.js, final_code_v2.js, or final_code_REALLY_final.js? 😵 We've all been there. It's a messy way to track changes and a nightmare for teamwork. Let's fix this forever with two tools: Git and GitHub. Part 1: Git - Your P...
promptengineering
Unlock Faster and Cheaper LLM Responses with Prompt Caching
python
I was always curious about how Python assigns values under the hood to the same variable. Example Let's say we declare: a = 2 print(type(a)) # This will give INT as a response a = 2 a = "Hello World" print(type(a)) # This will give String as a res...
