I have been on the Kinesis advantage 2 train for the last 2 years and decided to upgrade to the Kinesis Advantage 360 in hopes of better usability, since I really liked the split layout and the option to have bluetooth. So far, I'm liking it. I have the Kalih…
These are thoughts that have been brewing for me, and I wanted to take a moment to write it down as a stream of consciousness. They are based on my interactions with Agentic AI - i.e Amazon Q CLI. Don't wait on perfecting your promptJust start building. This is…
In large-scale data ingestion systems, small architecture choices can have dramatic performance implications. During my time at AWS CloudWatch, we were in the midst of a migration from our legacy metric stack to a spanky new one. I was the on call engineer as our alarms blared: end-to-end latency spikes…
Vibe coding has received unwarranted criticism recently, with many dismissing it as a gimmicky approach to software creation. In reality, it's an effective method to accelerate development while maintaining good practices throughout the process. ParallelismRun 4 instances of Claude Code or Amazon Q chat simultaneously, assigning each to work on…
I was trying to see what were the threading primitives that python had to offer and thought it would be an interesting blog post to use them all. Let's write a quirky story for each. Thread: The Parallel Pizza PartyImagine you're hosting a pizza party, but you only have one…
LSMTs are primarily used in databases where the write load is much heavier than the read load. There are 4 primary concepts In-memory memtables and WALSSTables (Sorted String tables) on DiskCompactionBloom FiltersLSMTs based databases are usually based on logs, writes just involve writing to a log in append manner. However…
Taking a look at the core concepts behind "Dynamo".…
It seems almost a lifetime ago that I used to have a blog. Kick starting this blog to have an outlet for my thoughts where the platform for sharing my thoughts is exclusively owned by me. Meet you at the next post!…