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December 20, 2021

December 17, 2021

Log4j RCE 0-day Mitigation

Background # A critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the Apache Log4j logging library was disclosed on Dec 9. The project provided release 2.15.0 with a patch that mitigates the impact of this CVE. It was quickly found that the initial patch was insufficient, and an additional CVE CVE-2021-45046 followed. This has been fixed in release 2.16.0. Who is affected? # The bulk of vitess code is in golang, and is unaffected by these vulnerabilities.

December 16, 2021

Rails that scales - Powered by Vitess

Past - Frameworks without scale # Over the past couple of decades, there has been a steady rise in the complexity of the development stacks that the developers across the globe have been using. The web has advanced from being just HTML files, to also include CSS and JavaScript with their own multitudes of frameworks like Redwood, Next.js, and Angular, among many others. The number of library dependencies that each project has has also shot up, leading to package managers like npm gaining popularity.

December 15, 2021

December 14, 2021

Splitting CSV files at 3GB/s

Splitting CSV files is a must when dealing with large, potentially larger than RAM, files. But how fast can it be?

December 13, 2021

December 10, 2021

LFX experience

I was a part of the LFX Fall Intern program working on Vitess for 2021 and it was a great learning experience for me. I got introduced to Kubernetes in my previous internship through which I came to know about CNCF and then about the LFX program (CNCF is part of the LinuxFoundation). Participating in LFX Intern program helped me develop my interest towards the internals of databases, query parsing and distributed systems, topics which I hope to explore in my final year.