Previous Post: A naive implementation of file-based storage It was impossible to not come across B-Trees or any of the variants (B+Trees) if I had to implement a database. I hadn’t studied this data structure before. Understanding the use case At its core, B-Trees are multilevel indices for data stored in a database. A good … [Read more…]
The Broken Ear is the first book with a preconceived plot. In the previous serialisations, Hergé had covered the four cardinal directions—Soviet in the North, Congo in the South, America in the West and China in the East. His approach to stories had changed much after his chance encounter with a fellow artist, Chang. He started … [Read more…]
Previous Post: YetiDB: an academic exercise We have a basic implementation of four interfaces— The core idea is to have the interfaces defined and write a number of good test cases. This will help me when I get to serious implementations of db engines. Implementation From an implementation standpoint, the Query Parser is rudimentary and … [Read more…]
Over the last couple of years I have seen protobufs being used not only as a means to serialize and deserialize data for transport over network but also as a means to implement a type system, business logic, version control, storage schema, and what not. These often require authoring some sort of custom options (extensions) for the … [Read more…]
Goecha-La was my first trek. Back in 2008, me and my friends made an attempt to reach there. Poor planning, poor fitness and general lack of awareness of what a trek entails resulted in a hilarious and failed trip. I haven’t shied away from documenting that embarrassing piece of history. If you are interested, please … [Read more…]
Day 0: Preparing for Udupi 24th December, 2022 I rode all the way from my house to Mittal’s, where we both dismantled and packed our bicycles with bubble wrap, duct tape, some cardboard, and Styrofoam. It took us over two hours to do so—mostly because we didn’t have everything in place. I had packed the … [Read more…]
It feels strange to write a retrospective of the year that was after one-and-a-half months of 2022. It has been a significant year in my life. There were three things that marked important changes in my life. Living with my mom after two decades I had left my parents’ house in 2002 to pursue my … [Read more…]
Due to an oversight by my Hotel’s manager, I had no reservation to Guwahati. He was unable to contact any of the drivers last night. Like most people in the hills, they had gone off to sleep early. I woke the Hotel’s manager up at 5:00 am in the morning and walked towards the Sumo … [Read more…]
Dawa came to see me off for one last time in the morning. It was unusual of him to wake up that early. We both had our morning tea with Sangi Thema before bidding them goodbye. Bomdila is situated at a higher altitude than Dirang. Our Sumo snaked its way up through the switchbacks and … [Read more…]
In the next two days, Dawa took me to three villages—Chug, Sangti and Thembang. Chug and Sangti Dawa wanted to show me Chug. It’s slightly inwards from Rama Camp and is famous among Dirang locals for its picnic spots. He had not been there before and had only seen images shared by his friends. When … [Read more…]
