Apache TiDB is an interesting new database, and PingCAP is the company driving most of its development. Recently I read … More
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Learn Rust: Assignment and Memory Semantics
If you are familiar with Java or C/C++, understanding the assignment operator (=) in Rust will demystify a lot of … More
Kubernetes Autoscaling – an overview
This post describes the features k8s provides for Automated Scaling of applications. This is Part 3 of a series. Part … More
Kubernetes – the internal architecture
This post summarizes the internal architecture of Kubernetes (k8s). For my previous post on user-facing aspects, see Part 1 of … More
Kubernetes – an introduction
I decided to start learning about Kubernetes (k8s) although I have not used it in production yet. These are my … More
Book review: The Effective Executive
This is a crisp booklet by the famous management consultant Peter Drucker. It focuses on a few time tested general … More
Book review: It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
I read Jason Fried and David H Hansson’s book “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work” and found it … More
Docker — a conceptual overview
Recently I learnt a bit about Docker while using it on a project. I read large parts of a well … More
ListenableFuture vs CompletableFuture — a comparison
In my previous blog post I wrote about how Google Guava’s ListenableFuture is an improvement over Java 6’s Future class. … More
How is Google Guava ListenableFuture better than Java Future?
Google Guava’s concurrency classes provide some advantages over using Java’s default classes. Guava’s Futures offer the following benefits: You can … More