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Reading Notes: The Mental Game of Poker
I recently read the book “The Mental Game of Poker” by Jared Tendler. How I stumbled onto this book and decided to pick is also interesting, but lets skip that part for now. Here are some of my reading notes and notable learnings from the book. Some general points Mental training is an integral part […]
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Year End Decompress: 2019
Time is a strange concept. At times it seems unidirectional, flowing like a river. Paying no heed to the ones who can’t keep up with the pace. Eroding everything on the way. Tossing away what once claimed to be forever, like a tumbleweed. Obversely, its cyclical nature blows my mind. Everything that time serves you […]
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Trying to Wrap My Head Around The Dynamo Storage System: A Deep Dive
Introduction The world of databases is very interesting. To build a loveable product, a core infrastructure piece that’s needed is the data persistence layer. I find this data persistence layer to be like a tip of the iceberg, the get and the put calls have so much going under the hood that it’s mind blowing […]
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies By Reid Hoffman: Reading Notes
Why I picked this book? My 6th book of the year was Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman. I have been listening to Reid’s Masters of Scale podcast for quite some time now and found the mentions of the concept of “blitzscaling” rather interesting.I still think that it’s simply […]
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Dependency Injection: Taming the modules that make up our software.
Introduction All software projects, (even relatively smaller ones) are the result of aggregation of several components and modules. As these software projects grow and evolve, the way we connect these components becomes a win or lose factor.I believe, that the way we orchestrate these components decides if the software will evolve as fast as the […]
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A Tale on Concatenated Indexes: Master Roshi and Goku’s fireside chat
Right Practice. Right Results This post is part of newsletter that I run “Scamming the Coding Interview”, which is geared towards continuous practice on concepts to ace the engineering interviews. Subscribe Once upon a time there was a master named Roshi whose relational database used to work like a blowing wind. Reads used to be […]
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Introduction to LSM Trees: May the logs be with you
This post is a part of a newsletter that I run: “Scamming The Coding Interview“, which is geared towards helping people ACE their coding interviews. We send a coding question on weekdays along with a system design article like this one on weekends. Do subscribe If you find this article valuable. Introduction What will be the simplest […]
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Architecting for Scale by Lee Atchison: Reading Experience
I recently read the book Architecting for Scale by Lee Atchison. The book contains a high-level overview of the major concepts that revolve around the topic of building highly-available and scalable apps.I felt the book to be more suited as a light read for people already familiar with these concepts rather than being an informative […]
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How To Objectively Reason About Systems: Correctness Properties Of A System
This post is a part of a newsletter that I run: “Scamming The Coding Interview“, which is geared towards helping people ACE their coding interviews. We send a coding question on weekdays along with a system design article like this one on weekends. Do subscribe If you find this article valuable. When a new system […]
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Basics of Database Partitioning and Partition Strategies
You are a part of a startup which has recently scaled to reach a huge number of users. This means that the increased number of users are going to generate a huge amount of data that you have to store and manage. It soon becomes evident that managing a huge dataset is a major hurdle […]
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Priyank Verma 