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Atomic operations with Elasticsearch

... leave the page in frustration and come back minutes later to find new results popping up in the search engine... but this time, the results count is super low (the INSERT operation for new documents is still processing).

May 6, 2020

Data stores in Software Architectures

... Service Text autocomplete is so popular that a solution was made specifically for it - search engines. These include well-known names like Elasticsearch and Solr, which are powered by Lucene under the hood.

July 19, 2021

CSR vs. SSR

... much longer. Another downfall is that CSR and Single-page applications (SPA) can often lead to search engine optimization (SEO) issues. React and Angular are primarily frameworks for building SPA.

June 21, 2020

Local Secondary Index vs. Global Secondary Index

... the local secondary index, the global secondary index can be partitioned by some term (taken from search engines such as Elasticsearch). A term here would be a field in a Document database, or a column in RDBMS.

January 15, 2022

Scanning for memory addresses with Cheat Engine and ZSNES

Cheat Engine (CE) is an open source memory scanner/hex editor/debugger that works for Windows applications. Another way to put it is that CE is used to explore the memory that is dynamically allocated (by Windows) in games.

July 4, 2017

Useful Links

This is a personal list of useful resources for improving web stacks, frameworks, development, UX, whatever that I come across! Software Engineering The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) Encryption vs.

September 4, 2017

DataFrames (a software engineer's perspective)

What is a DataFrame? A DataFrame is a special data structure used primarily by data scientists and machine learning algorithms. It contains row and column data in tabular fashion by storing metadata about each column and row.

May 2, 2022

Misconceptions of Software Engineer interviews at FAANG

There are already so many articles and Quora/Reddit/Blind posts out there on how to interview prep to get into big companies. So instead of covering that in detail, I want to focus more on the angle of common misconceptions.

August 15, 2020

Web Development 101

HTTP vs. HTTPS HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It typically runs on TCP port 80. It is a protocol for sending data through browsers in the form of webpages and such. One major flaw with HTTP is that it is vulnerable to man in the middle attacks.

November 9, 2017

P vs. NP

P vs. NP is a millenium-prize problem in Computer Science that has not been proven yet. Are all P in NP? Or are all NP in P? What is NP-Complete? P vs. NP When we talk about P or NP, we generally talk about decision problems, which means the algorithms always output a "yes" or a "no".

October 11, 2017

NumPy vs. Pandas, and other flavors (Dask, Modin, Ray)

NumPy NumPy is a Python library for numerical computing that offers multi-dimensional arrays and indices as data structures and additional high-level math utilities. ndarray The unique offering of NumPy is the ndarray data structure, which stands for n-dimensional array.

May 26, 2022