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My blog, touching on software engineering, music, recipes, and poetry.

Published on
November 29, 2023
Data Storage and Indexing
B-Trees Bloom-Filters Databases Indexing LSM-Trees SSTables Software-Engineering Storage-Engines System-Architecture System-Design
Part 2 of my DDIA series. Let's dig into how Databases store and index our data.
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November 1, 2023
Availability, Scalability, and Maintainability
Availability Reliability Distributed-Systems Maintainability Scaling Software-Engineering System-Architecture System-Design
First post in my series synopsizing the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Today we generalize scaling and maintaining reliable systems.
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October 22, 2023
The Cache Storage Layer
Distributed-Systems Memcached Redis Cache Cloud AWS Cost-Management State-Management Streaming
If your cache is shrinking your cash quicker than your response times, consider a hybrid approach.
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Published on
November 19, 2020
Music Video
New-Retro-Wave Synthwave Electronic Video Creative Music
Check out my latest music video, "Masked"
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Published on
November 8, 2020
Synthwave Album
New-Retro-Wave Synthwave Electronic Creative Music
Check out my new synthwave album, "Masked"
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