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01.15.2021 TailWind CSS Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML. A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup.
01.08.2021 Io Nio, Blocking, Non Blocking Io Nio blocking io non blocking io nodejs java thread processed let's do some cleanup in the mess.
12.31.2020 Time Management Agile, GTD getting things done , deep work , zero inbox, being more efficient , scrum, sprints
12.24.2020 Derivative and Integral In mathematics, an integral assigns numbers to functions in a way that can describe displacement, area, volume, and other concepts that arise by combining infinitesimal data. Integration is one of the two main operations of calculus; its inverse operation, differentiation, ...
12.15.2020 Snowflake quick overview Snowflake uses s3 in order to store the data and it has a layout on top of it in order to run all the computations that you need such as SQL in this episode we are going to scan quickly ...
12.05.2020 WeChat the OS We chat is actually in operation system that you can install sub applications be aware of the world with the GPS look outside with the camera pay get coupons interact with the people and set up appointments
11.19.2020 Conquering Merge Sort When is the selection sort a better option than the merge sort
11.12.2020 SQL - Steps for clean SQL The steps and the stages you can take in order to create clear and clean SQL and comparing it to standard programming languages
10.29.2020 Clean SQL Best practice for writing clean maintainable understandable human readable SQL.
10.24.2020 DNS for programmers DNS is just another high scale service we can learn from how it was designed for future high scale services architecture
10.17.2020 Floating Point The floating point number representation in computers is another data type but when should you be using or not, what are its advantages and limitations
10.05.2020 Tools Editors command line intellij visual studio vim bash zsh markdown wiki and looking what are the best practice tools for a programmer today
10.01.2020 Productivity for Programmers Here are 10 tips for productivity specifically for programmers from the top brilliant minds of productivity super experts
09.24.2020 Basic sorting differences The differences between the basic sorting algorithms selection bubble and insertion there are delicate ones.
09.18.2020 Anti Process How do companies deal and how should they deal with detention between efficiency wounds and innovation do this collide and what can we do about it What do companies actually do about this tension. And the Netflix example from the ...
09.16.2020 BFS BFS breadth first search is another building block algorithm. It's built from a queue and a visited marker array.
09.12.2020 How Random is Random We all use java.util.Random let's see what a professor of mathematics who recently won $3m prize the largest one in math has to say about randomness.
09.11.2020 JSON and Relational Databases The JSON data model and the relational databse and sql model
09.05.2020 DFS - Building graph algorithms bottom up Building more complex graph algorithms based on the basic building blocks such as DFS and from there moving on to connected components shortest path traveling salesman
09.04.2020 Design Documents What are the smells for a bad design document, What makes a design document good, what should you include in it, what should you not include in it guidelines on writing top notch design documents for software engineers.
08.28.2020 Trees and Graph Terminology Rooted graphs, graphs, DAG, different ways of storing graphs bipartite graphs etc.
07.23.2020 Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems Machine learning offers a fantastically powerful toolkit for building useful complexprediction systems quickly. This paper argues it is dangerous to think ofthese quick wins as coming for free. Using the software engineering frameworkof technical debt, we find it is common ...
07.17.2020 Statistical Significance and Hypothesis Testing In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis.
07.16.2020 B Trees Research Paper (1970) In computer science, a B-tree is a self-balancing tree data structure that maintains sorted data and allows searches, sequential access, insertions, and deletions in logarithmic time. The B-tree generalizes the binary search tree, allowing for nodes with more than two ...
07.10.2020 Peter Naur's Research Paper - Programming as Theory Building Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016)[1] was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He is best known as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax ...
07.06.2020 Flutter - UI - Well Organized Cross Platform Compiled UI Code. Fast development. Flutter's hot reload helps you quickly and easily experiment, build UIs, add features, and fix bugs faster. Experience sub-second reload times..
07.05.2020 Vim CheatSheet Vim is an extremely powerful editor. Not only you can use it from command line but also from IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code, and for actual command line manipulation.
07.01.2020 DateTime and ISO 8601 ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times is an international standard covering the exchange of date- and time-related data. It was issued by the International Organization for Standardization and was first ...
06.27.2020 Vim for developers - Let's Talk Should you invest time in using Vim for software development? What should you do with Vim? How do you search for files? What about syntax coloring? Loading files from history, autocomplete and more. As it turns out you don't need ...
06.24.2020 Google's Monorepo Research Paper Why Google Stores Billions of lines of code in a single repository - this is a brief summary of a research paper published by google.
06.09.2020 Research Paper Review - Auto Distributed Systems Code Corrector In a paper named Fixed it for you. Protocol repair using lineage graphs it is described how machine can autocorrect programming error.
06.05.2020 Dijkstra Vs Bellman Ford Algorithm The Bellman–Ford algorithm is an algorithm that computes shortest paths from a single source vertex to all of the other vertices in a weighted digraph.
05.29.2020 Edsger Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm Dijkstra's algorithm is an algorithm for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph, which may represent, for example, road networks. It was conceived by computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1956 and published three years later. The algorithm ...
05.24.2020 Linux Performance for Software Developers As developers, we sometimes want to check the performance of our server, we are not system administrators so we do not run these commands on a daily basis but here is a quick overview of it.
05.22.2020 Selection Sort In computer science, selection sort is an in-place comparison sorting algorithm. It has an O(n²) time complexity, which makes it inefficient on large lists, and generally performs worse than the similar insertion sort
05.20.2020 Containers - cgroups, namespaces, hypervisor, vm's cgroups is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage of a collection of processes. Engineers at Google started the work on this feature in 2006 under the name "process containers".
05.16.2020 Recursive Backtracking Backtracking is a general algorithm for finding all solutions to some computational problems, notably constraint satisfaction problems, that incrementally builds candidates to the solutions, and abandons a candidate as soon as it determines that the candidate cannot possibly be completed ...
05.07.2020 SQL Window Functions (OVER, PARTITION BY) In the SQL database query language, window functions allow access to data in the records right before and after the current record. A window function defines a frame or window of rows with a given length around the current row, ...
05.01.2020 ReactJs for Backend Developers React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is maintained by Facebook and a community of individual developers and companies. React can be used as a base in the development of single-page or mobile applications
04.30.2020 Java, Python, JavaScript, Estimations, Testing The fundamental structures of a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements and relations.[1] The architecture of a software system is a metaphor, ...
04.29.2020 Spark DataFrame Documentation Spark is a library for structured data processing. Unlike the basic Spark RDD API, the interfaces provided by Spark SQL provide Spark with more information about the structure of both the data and the computation being performed. Internally, Spark SQL ...
04.24.2020 Statistics For Programmers Statistics is a form of mathematical analysis that uses quantified models, representations and synopses for a given set of experimental data or real-life studies. Statistics studies methodologies to gather, review, analyze and draw conclusions from data
04.14.2020 Building Secure and Reliable Systems A recent book was published this year by Google about site reliability and security engineering, I would like to provide you a brief overview of it and incorporate my own analysis and thoughts about this subject while saving you some ...
04.03.2020 Dev On-Call Patterns On-call, sometimes referred to as on-call shifts are processes used in business where employee work schedules are intentionally unpredictable. Employees who work on-call are expected to be available at any time during their shift, usually with short notice, to carry ...
03.19.2020 Basic Sorting While there are a few types of sorting algorithms we have a few shared metrics to evaluate them all. So when you refer me to a specific algorithm we could ask, is this sorting algorithm stable? Is it sorting in ...
03.12.2020 API Design Paper Summary “The Little Manual of API Design” is a very nice paper written by Jasmin Blanchette has released a paper while working in trolltech, which is a Nokia company. I found it to be very clear and concise, and reassuring what ...
02.28.2020 Recursion Trees In graph theory, a recursive tree is a non-planar labeled rooted tree. A size-n recursive tree is labeled by distinct integers 1, 2, ..., n, where the labels are strictly increasing starting at the root labeled 1. Recursive trees are ...
02.25.2020 Elon Musk Neuralink Paper Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) hold promise for the restoration of sensory and motor function and the treatment of neurological disorders, but clinical BMIs have not yet been widely adopted, in part because modest channel counts have limited their potential. In this ...
02.20.2020 Character Encoding Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system. Depending on the abstraction level and context, corresponding code points and the resulting code space may be regarded as bit patterns, octets, natural numbers, ...
02.14.2020 Raft consensus algorithm Raft is a consensus algorithm designed as an alternative to Paxos. It was meant to be more understandable than Paxos by means of separation of logic, but it is also formally proven safe and offers some additional features

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Programmers Quickie episodes:

TailWind CSS

Io Nio, Blocking, Non Blocking

Time Management

Derivative and Integral

Snowflake quick overview

WeChat the OS

Conquering Merge Sort

SQL - Steps for clean SQL

Clean SQL

DNS for programmers

Floating Point

Tools

Productivity for Programmers

Basic sorting differences

Anti Process

BFS

How Random is Random

JSON and Relational Databases

DFS - Building graph algorithms bottom up

Design Documents

Trees and Graph Terminology

Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems

Statistical Significance and Hypothesis Testing

B Trees Research Paper (1970)

Peter Naur's Research Paper - Programming as Theory Building

Flutter - UI - Well Organized Cross Platform Compiled UI Code.

Vim CheatSheet

DateTime and ISO 8601

Vim for developers - Let's Talk

Google's Monorepo Research Paper

Research Paper Review - Auto Distributed Systems Code Corrector

Dijkstra Vs Bellman Ford Algorithm

Edsger Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm

Linux Performance for Software Developers

Selection Sort

Containers - cgroups, namespaces, hypervisor, vm's

Recursive Backtracking

SQL Window Functions (OVER, PARTITION BY)

ReactJs for Backend Developers

Java, Python, JavaScript, Estimations, Testing

Spark DataFrame Documentation

Statistics For Programmers

Building Secure and Reliable Systems

Dev On-Call Patterns

Basic Sorting

API Design Paper Summary

Recursion Trees

Elon Musk Neuralink Paper

Character Encoding

Raft consensus algorithm