Essays and Blogs

Documenting my learnings through one essay at a time.

Atheletic Journey

  • Why I run?

  • Marking the 100k ride off my bucketlist

  • When Priorities Change

  • I completed my first marathon!

  • Exploring Minimalist Running Shoes

  • Training for a Triathlon

  • Pushing Beyond Limits

Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms

  • Unlocking the Power of Trie Structures: Applications Beyond Text Search

  • Understanding and Implementing the Skip List Data Structure

  • Bloom Filters Explained

  • Understanding and Implementing the HyperLogLog Data Structure

  • Understanding and Implementing the Count-Min Sketch Data Structure

Search Relevance and IR

  • How to quantify the search results quality?

  • Is Hybrid Search the future of Ecommerce search?

  • How does the HNSW algorithm work?

  • Building Vector Search application on top of Solr?

Currently Writing / WIP

  • The math behind Inverse Document Frequency - the IDF of TFIDF

Career Growth and Productivity

  • I started reading, again!

  • Strong Resume Matters!

  • Strong Resume Matters!

  • Becoming a Better Software Engineer

  • Back to learning deeply

Concurrency and Multithreading

  • Navigating Concurrent Updates with Optimistic Locking

Scalable Systems Design

  • Designing and implementing a sliding window based rate limiter

  • Understanding the difference between load balancer, reverse proxy and API gateway