Shraddha Agrawal

@shraddhaag.dev

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Senior Software Engineer at Ceph, IBM You’ll find me talking about computers, databases, distributed systems, fiction books, movies, music, photography, building Lego and puzzles! 🌐 shraddhaag.dev

“The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false.” — Alan M. Turing
We have also added discussions of sync engines and local-first software, workflow engines and durable execution, formal methods and randomized testing, GraphQL, and various other technologies that are worth knowing about. We have included a bit of legal context as well, by exploring the impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related law. We’ve also taken a few things away—for example, as MapReduce is now largely obsolete, we have rewritten the batch processing chapter accordingly, and we sadly decided to drop the Tolkien-style maps.
The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been - which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.
Banana bread baking in the oven.
Totoro and an orange chick crochet plushies
24 hours of earth orbits with daylight in the northern hemisphere depicted.
Screenshot of docs with the text: this is really subtle, consider the below case where > represents your current position + direction: ....#..... ........># ........#. When you turn right and step, you again encounter an obstacle (a '#'). This is a valid case and you can not exit the loop at this point. Instead, you turn right once MORE, an effective turn of 180 degrees this time, and then continue.
Beautiful sunset view of clouds over a city.
Pasta with tomato sauce plated on a white ceramic dish with hot vapour.