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Parallel Processing with Constraints

An interesting senario, I recently encountered - have tried to tear down the context to get to the solution early, and avoid nitty gritty (boring) details. Also, example showns only 2 threads.

Choreography vs Orchestration

I have been getting into this debate quite often; which approach is preferred - Choreography vs Orchestrator. As always, it depends - Here is my take on it… Modules: App: Like an UI module, where user trigger’s an action like:Create an account Action #N: Specific modules, which has one specific action to be performed like: sending email, mail atm cards - once an account is created.

Feature Toggle - Nightmares

We were working on a custom algorithm to optimally grab images given a list of area. Every image grabbed is written into an object store with a generated hashkey. The haskkey can be used to query the recorded data - when we would like to play them back.

Side Cars

Idea Add additional functionality into an existing application, with minimal or zero code changes to the exiting application. Also, the package can be consume by any software - irrespective of the language or framework (heterogeneous) it is written in.

Badminton - BG66 Ultimax String

It’s been around 3-4yrs since I started playing badminton. Have heard friends discussing about different types of badminton strings - but personally never felt a need to take a deep look at any of them.

MongoDB - Hybrid Schema

I recently ran into a situation where in we have a session and each Session produces a lot of messages (sync) and each message has an associated timestamp and order. This is similar to a blog post (session) and its comments (messages).

MongoDB Tit Bits

While I am getting started with MongoDB for my new project. Here are the few quick notes - based on my readings so far: One Key Takeaway: Data accessed together should be stored together

Goals - Yr 2021

Being in the IT industry for more than a decade: Start of the year: “Goal setting” - you align with your manager on how the year is gona possibly look like End of the year: “Self Assessment” - your retrospective of how the year was.

Retrospective - Year 2020

Happy New Year - 2021 What went well 👍 This year has been more personal challenges than technical due to the Covid19. Marathon: Ran my first 10K Marathon, Chennai. I ran with my wife and we finished together 😍

Docker - DotNet 4.8 - Getting Started

Source Code: docker-try-net48 Goal: Develop a .Net48 application - coding would happen in the host while its run inside the docker - live Prerequisite: Docker Desktop for windows is up and running and you are using Windows Containers