Kaivalya Apte - The Geek Narrator @thegeeknarrator
The GeekNarrator Podcast - Software Engineering, Distributed systems and Databases. youtube.com/c/TheGeekNarra… Berlin, Germany Joined April 2022-
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Interviewer: What is the most difficult project you have worked on? Me: Planning my 3-year-old’s birthday party. It involved everything stake holder management, cost optimisation, time management, back of the envelope calculations, functional and non functional requirements,…
Only ever when there’s never going to be contention (< 10%), i.e. no power users, and no power law in the workload, or see Amdahl’s Law. (Even then—probably a good idea to get procurement to sign off on “Scalability! But at what COST?”)
Only ever when there’s never going to be contention (< 10%), i.e. no power users, and no power law in the workload, or see Amdahl’s Law. (Even then—probably a good idea to get procurement to sign off on “Scalability! But at what COST?”)
When should you start splitting your database? If none of these make sense. Add sense in comments please.
.. and Kaivalya has spread some gold dust on the thread. Each of these episodes is a banger ..
.. and Kaivalya has spread some gold dust on the thread. Each of these episodes is a banger ..
This thread is a good one. If you would like to explore the idea of building databases on top of S3, you can refer to following episodes: - How would you design a database on Object Storage? @Sirupsen youtu.be/RFmajOeUKnE - Database Internals - SlateDB with Chris…
This thread is a good one. If you would like to explore the idea of building databases on top of S3, you can refer to following episodes: - How would you design a database on Object Storage? @Sirupsen youtu.be/RFmajOeUKnE - Database Internals - SlateDB with Chris…
Talked about API design fundamentals for an hour for members. You can join and watch it here: Practical API Design - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly youtube.com/live/aEldLwhBJ…
Move fast and - Don’t break things. - Don’t break abstractions. - Don’t break customer trust. - Don’t break your cloud budgets. - Don’t break your back constantly sitting in Incident calls. Move fast != Writing 💩 code that eventually breaks all the above.
Ah so we came to SSDs from SSSHD Super Solid Super Hard Drive What a journey 😅
Incident postmortems must be blameless, but this is not an excuse to avoid difficult questions. The purpose of a postmortem is to identify root causes and implement effective preventative measures. Blameless culture means focusing on systems and processes that failed, without…
A good system design document should have 90% text, 10% diagrams and not the other way around 🤦 Write it down and capture all the details. Diagrams look good but they are lossy compressions of the design. Have a document that captures: - Clear and concise problem statement…
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