How we solved OOM issues in ClickHouse using a simple UUID-range bucketing algorithm called InsertSplitter.
Jul 10, 2024
A step-by-step approach on resolving memory issues I experienced at work, leading to an 84% reduction in memory usage with no adverse impacts on the product.
Dec 28, 2023
An exploration of the concept of being parasitical, examining moral considerations, and ultimately questioning where individuals draw the line in accepting or rejecting such behavior.
The blogpost explores how the evil downsides of indirection, a programming principle that can be conceptualised in real life, can (and invariably will?) be challenged by the latest AI developments.
Jun 17, 2023
A summary of my experience building a Go-based project that tracks cryptocurrency predictions on social media and evaluates their accuracy using publicly available market data.
Aug 25, 2022
Blogpost on past & present of investing, focusing on the problem of the difficulty of finding reputable advice on cryptocurrency investments. Also presenting an engine I created to keep a track-record for cryptocurrency influencers, called the Crypto Predictions Tracker.
My journey building a universal crypto candlestick iterator in Go, with tips for all the challenges you’ll face working with crypto exchanges’ APIs.
This is the story of how I managed to expose my Golang chess backend project cheesse as a WebAssembly binary, compiled using TinyGo, so JavaScript could use it, without needing a server.
This article aims to be the simplest introduction to constructing an LL(1) parser in Go, in this case for parsing SQL queries. It assumes minimal programming competence (functions, structs, ifs and for-loops).
In the past few weeks we’ve rolled out a Go microservice called ‘KIB’ to production, which reduced a huge portion of the infrastructure necessary for Movio’s main product, saving considerable AWS bills & maintenance, significantly simplified our architecture and made our product 80% faster on average. We wrote KIB on a Hackathon.
I’ve written a blogpost for Movio about two Go CLI tools we’ve created, sql and chart, to improve our data tinkering workflow
A chess engine that solves several use-cases that there are no good free online sources for, and a good candidate for AI research or for a backend for chess sites.
I’ve written a blogpost for Movio about our squad’s decision to migrate part of our Scala codebase to Go.
Jul 30, 2016
In this blogpost, I describe the most popular tools currently used to diff streams on the terminal, their differences and limitations. Then I introduce a new tool I’ve developed, sd, to address some of these limitations.
May 10, 2016
Quick introduction to a bash-based tool for ops and devs to do JIRA-related read-only tasks that is easy to install, configure and use.
Feb 27, 2016
A straightforward guide to fixing syntax highlighting issues in Sublime Text 3 based on an actual issue I found.