A passionate programmer, software architect, and a enthusiastic observer of internet technologies and usage. Having worked in a variety of roles, the essential passion that drives me is that of a Programmer. Architecture and Design issues excite me, C++, Java and Python I am quite competent at, and Scala is one where I would like to get there.

Tweets for 2009-04-11

  • Presentation on the Facebook Stack : infoQ : Science and the Social Graph http://tinyurl.com/d6vyed #
  • FB Stack : No read replication of mysql within a data center. memcached stores 25TB (serialised php structs) with avg latency < 200 microsec #
  • FB Stack : memcache over UDP. appl level flow control n sequencing (la TCP). Kernel mod to distribt n/w interrupts over multi core, polling. #
  • One of my favourite scifi authors Orson Scott Card wrote a piece on how software companies die in 3/1995 http://diary.carolyn.org/osc.html #
  • The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types — and vice versa : Orson Scott Card. Hmmm! #
  • By the way, Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is a complete must read for any sci-fi fan. There r 10 sequels too but some not as good. #
  • Facebook News feed (as in Dec 08), thats the main feed you see on logging in developed in C++ in 3 months by 2 enggrs. #
  • Reddit: In Haskell, if u can put “do” n then start programming procedurally, what makes the lang purely functionl? http://tinyurl.com/dhjtcv #
  • RT: @jboner: The main benefit of the Actor model is not simpler concurrency but fault-tolerance and reliability. #
  • RT: @markhneedham: RT @KentBeck: blogged about design as moving about on and between islands: http://twurl.nl/cg0a08 #
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