Consistent Hashing
Posted: May 17, 2023 | Cloud Engineering , Distributed Systems , Consistent HasingConsistent Hash Ring is a widely used technique in the process of distributing and load balancing data or operational workload across multiple system components with high fault tolerance. This technique aims to allow distributed shared data to be accessed again without the need for another indexi...
Rate Limiting with Token Buckets
Posted: June 1, 2022 | Cloud Engineering , Rate Limiting , ResilienceIn services landscape, rate limiting is not only a requirement to protect the available resources from getting exhausted and failing in the end, but it is also vital for attaining fair resource sharing among your users and also application clients. Sooner or later, as the business grows, you may ...
Writing documentation, we struggle with
Posted: December 22, 2021 | Documentation , Writing , Software EngineeringWriting documentation is not an easy task. It is sometimes more challenging - and not that spectacular, than writing source code since we as developers are trained how to deal with computers, but we may not know how people work. Therefore, when it comes to writing documentation, we are usually re...
Responsive Terminal Applications in Golang
Posted: May 8, 2021 | Golang , ProgrammingWhile developing a terminal application with Golang, I recently struggled with the implementation of a feature, that was the responsiveness of the terminal application to window size changes. The task was to re-draw my ASCII UI whenever the terminal window get resized. Fortunately, POSIX complian...