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Snakes and Ladders: Graph Theory Meets Game State Transformation
Brush up your graph solving skills with this interview-styled take on the treacherous board game.
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Dixyantar Panda
Deconstructing Exactly-Once Guarantees
Profound engineering-focused conversation on and around exactly-once deliveries in software engineering.
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Dixyantar Panda
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Phantom Reads and Isolation Guarantees
When a seemingly simple interview question unveils the complexity of distributed databases.
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Dixyantar Panda
Number of Islands: Connected Components in Graphs
Accelerate your graph learning ride with this fascinating exploration of a classic graph problem through interview simulation and analysis.
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Dixyantar Panda
Conversations from the War Room: Deconstructing Exactly-Once Guarantees
An intimate technical discussion revealing how theoretical limits shape production systems.
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Dixyantar Panda

December 2024

Lock, Stock & Two Racing Parallels
Deep dive into inventory management under high concurrency using Oracle & PostgreSQL. Java code is included for practical context.
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Dixyantar Panda
Frozen Caveman in an Ivory Tower: How Architecture Anti-Patterns Crashed an E-Commerce Thanksgiving Party
Once bitten twice shy? Broaden your gaze, lest you turn into the Frozen Caveman!
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Dixyantar Panda
Performance Prediction in Action: Building Self-Healing API Systems
We've built a production-ready system that can foresee API performance issues. But what if it could not just predict problems, but automatically prevent…
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Dixyantar Panda
Building Production-Ready Performance Prediction Systems: From Notebook to Network
Let's productionize our experimental models into robust prediction systems that automatically prevent performance issues before they impact users.
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Dixyantar Panda
Next.js Parallel Routes: The Most Powerful Router Feature You're Not Using
Transform complex React applications into elegant state machines using Next.js 14's most underutilized feature. Say goodbye to prop drilling and context…
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Dixyantar Panda
Beyond Basic Metrics: Multi-Factor Analysis for API Performance
Picking up from our exploration of simple linear regression for API performance prediction, we discover why looking at request volume alone leaves us…
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Dixyantar Panda
From Firefighting to Forecasting: A Software Engineer's Guide to API Performance Prediction
Master the art of API performance prediction and say goodbye to those 2 AM wake-up calls. Learn how to analyze real-world metrics and build reliable…
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Dixyantar Panda
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