A coworker recently challenged me to find an algorithm for calculating the square root of a number. I had no idea how to do it at first, but I realized I could use binary search, similar to the classic “number guessing” game. ...
As part of a migration from an old monolith to a microservices architecture, another team in my company was backfilling historical data by publishing kafka messages to a topic. I was in charge of another microservice which was also consuming from this same topic. Normally, during regular traffic, we were dealing with around 1-2 msgs/s. And no more than 5 msgs/s. With our setup, which included 3 consumers (1 per partition), we were able to process up to ~16.5 msgs/s (we learned this only later on). ...
Whenever I learn a new song, I found that the easiest way for me to write down the chords, is to just open up a simple text editor on my computer and write it using a super simple syntax. ...