I run dark mode everywhere macOS, browser, editor, terminal. At this point its not really a preference anymore. Bright white screens for hours genuinely strain my eyes. That setup worked perfectly until I started using Hide My Email, Apple’s privacy feature that generates random relay addresses for signing up…
In my last post Bloom Filters: MathMania, we worked through the derivations for optimal number of bits to allocate and the right number of hash functions to use – striking a balance between space, computation, and false positives. But all of that math rested on one simple assumption: the set of…
So, you’ve come across Bloom filters and understand that, despite their probabilistic nature, they are a great fit for your use case. You’ve decided to integrate them into your system design, but you’re unsure about the optimal size and the number of hash functions needed for your…
Durability requirements influence the choice of data protection mechanisms, such as replication, erasure coding, and RAID parity configurations. Achieving higher durability involves trade-offs between redundancy, storage usage ratio, and computational complexity. Replication achieves durability by creating multiple copies of data, which increases redundancy but reduces the storage usage ratio. In…
This blog post is another take at isolation levels, a topic I first explored in one of my earlier posts. The motivation this time is to relook at isolation levels from a different perspective so that isolation levels feel understood rather than merely studied. In a previous post, we saw…