melbalabs journal
practical mysticism
14
Oct 2024
parsing notes
Gradually moving from ad-hoc parsing to using parsing toolkits. # problem statement We have data in one or more forma...
06
Apr 2021
IPC will kill your app
Had to debug a core component that wasn't able to handle the relatively big input data stream. The application reads i...
11
Mar 2021
economy debt and software tech debt
Software follows not just the structure of the organization its built in (Conway's law), but also the conditions of the...
31
Jul 2020
data cleanup misadventures
There's always a big initial push to bring a system up and have it create and accumulate data, but usually the decisio...
27
Jul 2020
common branching errors
I often see people forgetting to handle all possible branching scenarios properly. It comes up in all kinds of shapes ...
25
Jul 2020
debugging distributed systems 2
Here's how a relatively small distributed system we'll discuss looks like in 2 different views.  relatively small, but heavily used distributed systems an...
24
Jul 2020
why
Why write a journal? I'll share ideas, knowledge, impressions, experience. This is content that is easy to review for ...