Oct 22
Few observations in regards to hash usage, in projects where data volume and spikes in load shift engineering from the KISS paradigm to the extent where you have to really care about underlying technologies and data structures. There are different hash functions tailored for different use cases – quick pattern matching in Rabin-Karp algorithm, prefix …
Oct 09
Overview of available type of indexes in different database engines and corresponding use cases. So, you have some data. Most likely you want to work with it – i.e. retrieve information according to some conditions = filtering what is important for you. Probably, even change the shape of this information – transform the data or …
Feb 29
Golden age of programmers who were able to fit in tiny RAM of first gaming consoles the whole universes of legendary games had passed few decades ago. Now your favourite browser can easily swallow gigabytes of memory in order to render single web-page with myriads of annoying ads that ad-blockers trying to defeat. Relative abundance of …
Feb 17
The cart goes nowhere because the swan wants to fly in the air, the pike wants to swim underwater and the crawfish wants to crawl backward. Cassandra is one of powerhorse of modern high load landscape – nosql database that can be pluged to Spark for distributed computing, Titan for playing with graph data representation …