Revisiting Dynamic Programming
The main problem with me w.r.t DP problem is forgetting it if i don't practice. So I decided to revisit all the DP problems i solved once again just to refresh my memory. So first …
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Java Design Patterns - JDP Series #1
Design patterns are general reusable solutions to common problems that occur in software design. They are not code, but rather guidelines on how to solve a particular problem in a …
Fed 27 2024. A Day of Compassion and Unexpected Encounters
Today was not an ordinary day for me; it began with the need to take an unexpected sick day. The morning unfolded with urgency as I planned to drop off my child, but fate had a …
Jump Game
Jump Game Peak and Valley approach. Jump game is a medium level leetcode problem which is very interesting yet brainy. Once you understand the problem correctly then the answer is …
From Painful Tables to Performance Bliss: My Journey with Database Partitioning - Part II
Skewed workloads and Relieving Hot Spots Imagine you have a library with books categorized by their first letter (A-Z). This is like partitioning data based on a key (like the …
From Painful Tables to Performance Bliss: My Journey with Database Partitioning - Part I
Ah, the early days of wrangling massive data tables! I vividly remember the struggle – slow queries, performance bottlenecks, and the ever-growing cloud bill. It was an uphill …
Event Sourcing - Moving out of traditions | Simplified version
Introduction A colleague recommended Martin Kleppmann’s “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” to me. Initially, I found the beginning somewhat tedious and opted for a non-linear …
Designing a Browser History Feature
Objective The goal is to create a class capable of handling browser history operations efficiently. This includes: Initializing the browser with a specified homepage. Navigating to …
An early morning adventure
On the early morning of February 1st, I decided to tackle a problem from the Striver’s SDE sheet. I came across an intriguing challenge titled “Set Matrix Zeroes”. Here’s how I …
An engineers view to religion
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