Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

They sound the same but work in opposite directions. They both began as Latin terms for stiff and unyielding, but now, they’ve diverged. A rigid approach is easy to describe, but it’s b…

Allow me a bit of introspection. I've been working in the software engineering field for 31 years. During those 31 years, I've modified a lot of legacy software.

Science fiction writers are made to seem prescient by confirmation bias: with time, almost any imagined future can be said to have come true. Take the pulp space opera Agent of Chaos by Norman

A $150 million chip-making tool from a Dutch company has become a lever in the U.S.-Chinese struggle. It also shows how entrenched the global supply chain is.

In 1857 guests at Washington D.C.’s National Hotel began to come down with a mysterious illness. One of them was James Buchanan, who was preparing to assume the presidency of the United States. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe the deadly outbreak and the many theories that were offered to explain it. We’ll also contemplate timpani and puzzle over an Old West astronaut. Intro: The words overnervousnesses and overnumerousnesses are vertically compact. Harvard mathematician George Birkhoff reduced the principle underlying beauty to a formula. Sources for our feature on the National Hotel Disease: Kerry Walters,...

The Idempotency-Key HTTP Header Field (Internet-Draft, 2021)

In January 2020, two months before the words SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus, and COVID-19 became frightening fixtures in our shared lexicon, my…

In the real world the act of hoarding brings with it a clutter blindness. Hoarders don’t see the mess no matter how large the mess is. In the mind of a hoarder their hoarding of objects is a means of...

The principles of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution justify free migration rights.

Physical clocks can't capture causality. This blog post discusses two kinds of logical clocks (Lamport Clocks and Vector Clocks), how they are able to capture causality and achieve consensus on the ordering of events, and how to implement them.

Listen to this episode from It Depends! on Spotify. A system-thinking led analysis of how not to create change. This is as big a challenge as its inverse, and arguably the one where most people fail despite their motivation. I share what I have learned from my multiple failures and how I think about orchestrating large-scale changes in an organization. Long-form version - https://kislayverma.com/organizations/the-problem-is-not-the-problem/

What's the real cost of interruptions? I illustrate all the context developers keep in their head and how it starts to decay immediately when interrupted.

Receiving a request, saving it into a database, and finally publishing a message can be trickier than expected. A naive implementation can either lose...

Getting something to work quickly is important when you are starting out, but if you want to become better at programming it's importa...

Be thoughtful on what is the optimized property before choosing the ideal solution. Sometimes the most technically efficient solution is not what is needed.

Data is crucial for big data technologies. That is why there are some measurements of data. Let's find out 4 vs of big data

A little story about how writing a domain-specific compression algorithm in a few days can sometimes yield big benefits, why it’s sometimes worth giving it a shot, and how to tell when you should t...

It covers how to make a time-series database engine from scratch

Twenty years ago a then relatively unknown programmer named Bram Cohen single-handedly sparked a new file-sharing revolution.