A blog about my coding adventures
Introduction RxJS, or Reactive Extensions for JavaScript, is Observables implementation for JavaScript. RxJS is a library for composing async and event-based progress by observable sequences. Examples Production-lines, airport baggage conveyor belt, a stream etc. With Reactive programming, we create our entire app by defining the various streams and the operations that get performed on those … Read more
Introduction Route 53 is AWS’ very own core DNS offering. Its is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. While building Route 53, AWS main goal was to build a system that could survive beyond five nines of availability (99.999%) and it seems like AWS has achieved it. You can use … Read more
Postgres: Modern, Capable, Scalable, Extensible and Fun. A bona fide slam dunk in my opinion, proper like Hallelujah. Now, do me a favor here, okay, and just allow me to get a little bit excited here, because I’ve lived through the crappy days and I think I deserve the chance to go a little bit … Read more
Building concurrent applications is hard. Building distributed applications is hard. And building robust resilient applications is also hard. Making use of the Actor model using Akka.NET makes these things easier. There are many things to consider when building reactive systems. The Reactive Manifesto describes the general characteristics of such system at https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ and Akka.NET adheres … Read more
“Ah Gravity, Thou Art a Heartless Bitch” Sheldon Cooper – The Big Bang Theory I like how in that Series, Sheldon’s okay with calling gravity that but the similar feeling I had when I was first researching about encoding. It is that little piece of the puzzle which is easier to reason about but often overlooked in programming. During my … Read more
Hello World! This is my first introductory post for this newly created blog. I was thinking about it for a while and today finally jumped over the fence and manged to do it. Hopefully will find time to keep it relevant as well. I have been in software development for many years and have my … Read more