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2026 fun projects
I started 2025 thinking about what it would look like if we just shamelessly copied biology. Without too much care, without being too smart. Just building AI systems that copied…
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Distributed media processing – Accessing files
While playing with personal projects involving heavy media manipulation (videos and audio), one recurring question that keeps bugging me is the most efficient way (accounting for…
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DAM Cycle - Document, Automate and Monitor
Although these ideas might seem basic, I am writing it from my experience working with local fintechs. One interesting thing across different these fintechs is how the different…
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Technical Specification Template
Not sure why you need this? $1
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In AWS ECS, how do I ensure my outgoing IP is static?
How do I ensure a static OUTGOING IP address for my applications within Amazon web service: Elastic Container (AWS ECS), while allowing a dynamic ipaddress for the different…
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Email Protocols and How They Work
Have you ever wondered how emails work. In this video I discuss the email protocols. SMTP, POP and IMAP and how emails generally get sent and received by email clients
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Latency 5: Size, Protocol, and Load
This is the fifth part of a multipart video series on Latency Have you ever wondered why some website load faster than others? Or why your online game lags sometimes? The answer…
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Latency 4: Distance between your application servers and your users
This is the fourth part of a multipart video series on Latency Have you ever wondered why some website load faster than others? Or why your online game lags sometimes? The answer…
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Latency 3: Working with 3rd Party Integrations
Here I talk about working with 3rd party integrations and caching your 3rd party data to create a good user experience for the users
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Latency 2: Optimizing Database (Single Large Queries vs Multiple Smaller Queries)
The first part largely focuses on what causes a high latency In this video, I discuss database query optimization, especially in the context of you having single large aggregated…
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Latency 1 (The Problems)
This is the first part of a multipart video series on Latency Have you ever wondered why some website load faster than others? Or why your online game lags sometimes? The answer…
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Reddit only used 2 Databases
My perspective on an article about reddit only using 2 databases table
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Looking Before Leap vs Asking for forgiveness
Exploring the Pros and Cons of Two Approaches: Defensive Programming with 'Asking for Forgiveness' and Proactive Planning with 'Looking Before You Leap' in Software Development.
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Idempotency
If you have been debited twice for a single transaction while using a your bank app one possible cause is related to IDEMPOTENCY. Idempotency is a property of an operation that…
