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February 19, 2016

Avinash Sajjanshetty

Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle

When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.

December 18, 2015

Avinash Sajjanshetty

Using uWSGI with Python 3

Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.

November 20, 2015

Avinash Sajjanshetty

When is my Cake Day?

Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.

October 31, 2015

Avinash Sajjanshetty

Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest

With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.

October 06, 2015

Vitess Blog

Cloud Native MySQL Sharding with Vitess and Kubernetes

Cross-posted on Google Cloud Platform Blog. Cloud native technologies like Kubernetes help you compose scalable services out of a sea of small logical units. In our last post, we introduced Vitess(an open-source project that powers YouTube's main database) as a way of turning MySQL into a scalable Kubernetes application. Our goal was to make scaling your persistent datastore in Kubernetes as simple as scaling stateless app servers - just run a single command to launch more pods.

October 01, 2015

Andy Pavlo

How to Write a Bad Statement for a Computer Science Ph.D. Admissions Application

Andy discuss examples of bad statements sent to CMU's Ph.D. admissions committee in hope that others don't make the same mistake.

by Andy Pavlo

September 24, 2015

Andy Pavlo

The Next 50 Years of Databases

Andy attempts to revive his blog by predicting what databases will look like in the year 2065.

by Andy Pavlo