How to Write a Bad Statement for a Computer Science Ph.D. Admissions Application
Andy discuss examples of bad statements sent to CMU's Ph.D. admissions committee in hope that others don't make the same mistake.
October 01, 2015
September 24, 2015
The Next 50 Years of Databases
Andy attempts to revive his blog by predicting what databases will look like in the year 2065.
August 01, 2015
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
May 31, 2015
An exploit on Gaana.com gave me access to their entire User Database
In May, 2015 I found an exploit on Gaana.com, which let me access their entire User Database (more than 10 Million) which included all the user info.
May 10, 2015
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
March 20, 2015
Scaling MySQL in the cloud with Vitess and Kubernetes
Cross-posted on Google Cloud Platform Blog.
Your new website is growing exponentially. After a few rounds of high fives, you start scaling to meet this unexpected demand. While you can always add more front-end servers, eventually your database becomes a bottleneck, which leads you to...
Add more replicas for better read throughput and data durability Introduce sharding to scale your write throughput and let your data set grow beyond a single machine Create separate replica pools for batch jobs and backups, to isolate them from live traffic Clone the whole deployment into multiple datacenters worldwide for disaster recovery and lower latency At YouTube, we went on thatjourney as we scaled our MySQL deployment, which today handles the metadata for billions of daily video views and 300 hours of new video uploads per minute.
December 28, 2014
Install Windows 8 UEFI on Legacy BIOS with Clover (and Dual boot with Yosemite)
This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual boot with Yosemite.