aksh1618
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Technical Architect @ 99Acres. Interested in all things Spring, Kotlin & Rust. Excited about Distributed Systems & Wasm. Part-time O11y nerd.
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· Dec 29
Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) by Martin Kleppmann is a must-read for engineers working with modern systems. The book validated and formalized my knowledge, offering insights that have a...
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Completed my first reading of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by @martin.kleppmann.com just in time before 2024 wraps up! Wrote about my experience here: aksh.dev/book-review-...
#ddia
#ddia
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it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself
definitely a form of self-care
definitely a form of self-care
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself
definitely a form of self-care
definitely a form of self-care
PSA!!
#P99CONF is going live in just minutes! Here's a peek at the behind-the-scenes prep. If you haven't registered yet, hurry over to p99conf.io. It's free and virtual, so no excuses. 😅
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
PSA!!
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At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.
@eurorust.eu 2025 is beginning! So excited about getting to attend live online! 🦀🦀
The two tracks are pretty tough to choose among, let's see if we can manage to sneak in the replays during the breaks...
The two tracks are pretty tough to choose among, let's see if we can manage to sneak in the replays during the breaks...
October 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
@eurorust.eu 2025 is beginning! So excited about getting to attend live online! 🦀🦀
The two tracks are pretty tough to choose among, let's see if we can manage to sneak in the replays during the breaks...
The two tracks are pretty tough to choose among, let's see if we can manage to sneak in the replays during the breaks...
PSA!! 🦀🦀
It's been a month since #rustconf 2025, but the buzz is still strong! 🦀
Revisit the magic via these videos on the @rustfoundation.org YouTube channel, incl. sessions, keynotes, & this highlight reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_I...
+Don’t miss these event pics 📸 www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...
Revisit the magic via these videos on the @rustfoundation.org YouTube channel, incl. sessions, keynotes, & this highlight reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_I...
+Don’t miss these event pics 📸 www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...
October 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
PSA!! 🦀🦀
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My use of the em-dash with respect to LLMs
September 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My use of the em-dash with respect to LLMs
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The next book we're reading in the Software Internals Email Book Club is the 2nd edition of The Art of Multiprocessor Programming.
Sign up and volunteer to kick off discussion for one chapter!
eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-...
Sign up and volunteer to kick off discussion for one chapter!
eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-...
August 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The next book we're reading in the Software Internals Email Book Club is the 2nd edition of The Art of Multiprocessor Programming.
Sign up and volunteer to kick off discussion for one chapter!
eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-...
Sign up and volunteer to kick off discussion for one chapter!
eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Antithesis has put up recordings from last few DC Systems, including this gem of a talk on Controlled Concurrency Testing for JVM Programs by Rohan Padhye! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6P...
Fray, the concurrency testing toolkit for the JVM: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray
Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6P...
Fray, the concurrency testing toolkit for the JVM: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray
June 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Antithesis has put up recordings from last few DC Systems, including this gem of a talk on Controlled Concurrency Testing for JVM Programs by Rohan Padhye! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6P...
Fray, the concurrency testing toolkit for the JVM: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray
Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6P...
Fray, the concurrency testing toolkit for the JVM: github.com/cmu-pasta/fray
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Greetings from #sd25! It's a two-day single-track conference hosted by
@tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here!
systemsdistributed.com
@tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here!
systemsdistributed.com
Systems Distributed '25
A conference to teach systems programming and thinking, and how to apply these ideas. All the way across the stack. From systems languages and compilers, to databases and distributed systems.
systemsdistributed.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Greetings from #sd25! It's a two-day single-track conference hosted by
@tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here!
systemsdistributed.com
@tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here!
systemsdistributed.com
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We’re thrilled to reveal our 2025 #rustconf program! 👀 this thread for the full list or visit rustconf.com/schedule
June 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We’re thrilled to reveal our 2025 #rustconf program! 👀 this thread for the full list or visit rustconf.com/schedule
I am Dark theme Duke. Unleash your inner Duke and win a limited-edition T-shirt! #Java30WithIntelliJIDEA www.jetbrains.com/lp/java-30/d...
Dark theme Duke
You code in the dark and you like it that way. Light mode is for quitters.
www.jetbrains.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I am Dark theme Duke. Unleash your inner Duke and win a limited-edition T-shirt! #Java30WithIntelliJIDEA www.jetbrains.com/lp/java-30/d...
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Leaflet Publications: blogging on Bluesky — version 0.1 is here!
✅ now: make publications, add posts, publish to Bluesky
🗓️ soon: subscribing, commenting & other social features
Try it: leaflet.pub/home
We'd love your feedback & ideas for how we can make this great!
✅ now: make publications, add posts, publish to Bluesky
🗓️ soon: subscribing, commenting & other social features
Try it: leaflet.pub/home
We'd love your feedback & ideas for how we can make this great!
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Leaflet Publications: blogging on Bluesky — version 0.1 is here!
✅ now: make publications, add posts, publish to Bluesky
🗓️ soon: subscribing, commenting & other social features
Try it: leaflet.pub/home
We'd love your feedback & ideas for how we can make this great!
✅ now: make publications, add posts, publish to Bluesky
🗓️ soon: subscribing, commenting & other social features
Try it: leaflet.pub/home
We'd love your feedback & ideas for how we can make this great!
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ed is the standard editor (unix), but apparently edit is the standard editor (windows) github.com/microsoft/edit
in #rustlang!
in #rustlang!
GitHub - microsoft/edit: We all edit.
We all edit. Contribute to microsoft/edit development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ed is the standard editor (unix), but apparently edit is the standard editor (windows) github.com/microsoft/edit
in #rustlang!
in #rustlang!
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We are opening up the @oxide.computer Discord to more than just recording Oxide and Friends, and now have some general discussion channels, as well as some user channels for our open source projects
discord.gg/FRwjhBaH
discord.gg/FRwjhBaH
Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!
The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4382 members
discord.gg
May 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We are opening up the @oxide.computer Discord to more than just recording Oxide and Friends, and now have some general discussion channels, as well as some user channels for our open source projects
discord.gg/FRwjhBaH
discord.gg/FRwjhBaH
Once I started with my first few major Rust projects, I found Clippy could be a great tutor/reviewer! So I spent an entire weekend going through *every* Clippy lint, curating the greatest-hits! 💿🦀
Feel free to drop them in your own Cargo.toml:
gist.github.com/aksh1618/f45...
Feel free to drop them in your own Cargo.toml:
gist.github.com/aksh1618/f45...
May 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Once I started with my first few major Rust projects, I found Clippy could be a great tutor/reviewer! So I spent an entire weekend going through *every* Clippy lint, curating the greatest-hits! 💿🦀
Feel free to drop them in your own Cargo.toml:
gist.github.com/aksh1618/f45...
Feel free to drop them in your own Cargo.toml:
gist.github.com/aksh1618/f45...
I had some free time recently – so decided to complete CodeCrafters' "Build Your Own Kafka" challenge. When I started this challenge at the start of this year, I had three goals:
1. Get more hands-on experience with Rust
2. Get to know Kafka internal better
3. Complete the challenge
1. Get more hands-on experience with Rust
2. Get to know Kafka internal better
3. Complete the challenge
May 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I had some free time recently – so decided to complete CodeCrafters' "Build Your Own Kafka" challenge. When I started this challenge at the start of this year, I had three goals:
1. Get more hands-on experience with Rust
2. Get to know Kafka internal better
3. Complete the challenge
1. Get more hands-on experience with Rust
2. Get to know Kafka internal better
3. Complete the challenge
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Let chains are one of my favorite Swift features. Glad to see them stabilized in #rustlang
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
Stabilize let chains in the 2024 edition by est31 · Pull Request #132833 · rust-lang/rust
Stabilization report
This proposes the stabilization of let_chains (tracking issue, RFC 2497) in the 2024 edition of Rust.
What is being stabilized
The ability to &&-chain let statements in...
github.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Let chains are one of my favorite Swift features. Glad to see them stabilized in #rustlang
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
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“KIP-1150 introduces Diskless Kafka topics that write directly to S3 instead of replicating between brokers.”
“Even using the expensive S3 Express (which a week ago lowered its prices by more than 50%) still saves 73% compared to traditional Apache Kafka.”
/ht @ananthdurai.bsky.social
“Even using the expensive S3 Express (which a week ago lowered its prices by more than 50%) still saves 73% compared to traditional Apache Kafka.”
/ht @ananthdurai.bsky.social
KIP-1150 in Apache Kafka is a big deal (Diskless Topics)
TL;DR KIP-1150 introduces Diskless Kafka topics that write directly to S3 instead of replicating between brokers. It literally reduces costs by 97% (from $1.8M to $20K annually for a 1GiB/s cluster) a...
topicpartition.io
April 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“KIP-1150 introduces Diskless Kafka topics that write directly to S3 instead of replicating between brokers.”
“Even using the expensive S3 Express (which a week ago lowered its prices by more than 50%) still saves 73% compared to traditional Apache Kafka.”
/ht @ananthdurai.bsky.social
“Even using the expensive S3 Express (which a week ago lowered its prices by more than 50%) still saves 73% compared to traditional Apache Kafka.”
/ht @ananthdurai.bsky.social
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Distributed systems built on object storage all have one common problem: removing files that have been logically deleted, either due to data expiry or compaction. What's the solution? We'll give a hint: it's not bucket policies or synchronous deletion 👉 buff.ly/XAB6mOi
April 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Distributed systems built on object storage all have one common problem: removing files that have been logically deleted, either due to data expiry or compaction. What's the solution? We'll give a hint: it's not bucket policies or synchronous deletion 👉 buff.ly/XAB6mOi
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I enjoyed @alexmillerdb.bsky.social's "Decomposing Transaction Systems" blog so much I had to write up how I'd decompose Aurora DSQL in a new blog post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/04...
April 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I enjoyed @alexmillerdb.bsky.social's "Decomposing Transaction Systems" blog so much I had to write up how I'd decompose Aurora DSQL in a new blog post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/04...
April 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM