I’m about to take yet another flight, this time flying to India. I’m excited, but then I can’t seem to pass the thought of why the heck security checks are so random. I had to come early to the airport because I simply couldn’t trust what would happen next. Over the years, I’ve been to so many airports and across […]
If you’ve worked in software long enough, you’ve probably seen it: a CRUD app serving a handful of users, deployed on a Kubernetes cluster with half the CNCF landscape stitched together for good measure. On paper it looks impressive. In reality, it’s a Rube Goldberg machine solving problems the team doesn’t actually have. Contrast that with Levels.fyi. The site now […]
I’ve been asked once to design a key value store in an interview. It looks easy at first. Then it gets hard, fast. What makes it interesting is how ambiguous it is. I started using it for interviewing staff+ level myself as well, because the ambiguity is really hard to get right. I like this question because you can approach […]
I have been working on this data discovery tool for a while, and it keeps showing me how messy our systems really are. The idea behind it is simple. Crawl every database we have, pull every table and column, match things that look the same across Postgres, Hive and Redshift, and then put everything in one place. One stop shop […]