🚧 This post is a work in progress, but feel free to explore what’s here so far. Stay tuned for more! 14 years of Apache Kafka! Kafka is the de facto standard for event streaming, just like AWS S...

If you have been following the Spatial Index Series, it started with the need for multi-dimensional indexes and an introduction to space-filling curves, followed by a deep dive into grid systems (G...

Brewing! this post a continuation of Spatial Index: Grid Systems where we will set the foundation for tessellation and delve into the details of Uber H3 0. Foundation Tessellation or tiling is the...

This post is a continuation of Stomping Grounds: Spatial Indexes, but don’t worry if you missed the first part—you’ll still find plenty of new insights right here. 3. Geohash Geohash: Invented in...

0. Overview Spatial data has grown (/is growing) rapidly thanks to web services tracking where and when users do things. Most applications add location tags and often allow users check in specific ...

0. Overview 0.1. Architecture A telemetry pipeline is a system that collects, ingests, processes, stores, and analyzes telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces) from various sources in real-time or n...

Figure 1: Debezium Postgres Connector 1. Goal Set up Debezium to capture row-level changes in the schemas of a PostgreSQL database and publish to Kafka topic(s). The high-level architecture is u...

Neo4j vs PostgreSQL Have you ever come across the need to store a graph in a relational database because using/onboarding a graph database for a small use-case is overkill? Before jumping into u...

Reinvent the Wheel! As I get slightly older and slightly wiser - to me, it’s more and more apparent that we humans live a life full of contradiction, are rarely self-satisfied, and thrive on lea...

Porco Rosso. Distributed Training Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence to perform tasks through experience. Deep learning algorithms are well suited...

Complex is Simple. What’s better than going over a real system design interview question (Interviewed in June 2022). 1. Requirements Review the end-to-end design below. You need to design Your ...