Understanding Snowflake ID and its uses
In distributed systems, ensuring unique and scalable identifiers is critical. While working on a recent problem, I needed to generate unique 64bit numbers ac...
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Tweeting my notes with Google Cloud Functions
A habit that I developed in recent times is to take a short note about the things I learn at work and in my personal explorations. Something like a flash car...
Serializing data with protobuf and json
I have been reading about gRPC and protobuf in the recent times, exploring protocol buffers and grpc concepts. The quick start tutorials provided for differe...
Exploring Zookeeper C Client
A short while ago I happened to work on Zookeeper related feature that required the use of Zookeeper C Client library to interact with the ensemble. We ran i...
Using ChatGPT in my everyday workflow
A few months ago, ChatGPT was made generally available and like many others, I was in awe of its technology, power, and most importantly, its simplicity of u...