Musings of a software engineer
CodeCrafters is an amazing community built by Paul Kuruvilla that contains project challenges for real-world software systems that are used widely(redis, git, docker, SQLite).
Each project comes in the form of guided steps on what you will build and leaves enough room for you to acquire new knowledge and apply them.
[Read more…] about Building redis with CodeCraftersI have spent the past few weeks learning Rust through the official book: The rust programming language, and enjoyed the experience. It is written by Steve Klabnik, one of the former contributors of Rust.
I have started learning Rust in 2019, abandoned it, and only returned to it recently.
[Read more…] about Learning a system programming language: RustSoftware architecture and design have always been an interesting topic to me. I always wonder how some of the largest real-world applications are designed, e.g. social media news feed, air ticket booking, ride-hailing booking.
[Read more…] about Software architecture and designEarlier this year(2021), I worked on Venturebites with a friend, which is a portal for tech startup events in Asia.
I was actively working on it for 2 months to get the system up and running. As of today, it is not under active development.
Here are some screen captures:
[Read more…] about Project venturebites: A portal for asia tech startup eventsPersonal finance is boundless. Whether it is optimising expenses, savings, investments, all the way to FIRE, there is always something interesting to talk about.
As an analytical person, I like to track my financial situation to see how it changes every month.
[Read more…] about Managing personal financeYou Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure
Data practitioners use SQL for data mining: From simply displaying data to telling stories with data.
As a software engineer, most of my interactions with SQL are for simple transactional queries, rather than analytical queries.
[Read more…] about Data mining: SQL for data practitioners