Published inBetter Programming·PinnedIntroduction and Strategies To Handle Challenges in CachingWhat caching is, how it works, and how you should think about it — What Is Caching? In the computing world, caching is the process of storing a subset of data in a highly accessible and high-speed layer called a cache. It is done to access more frequent data quickly and to avoid any additional computation that was done to fetch and store previous data. …Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published inBetter Programming·PinnedMember-onlyPatterns to Build Robust and Highly Available APIsConcepts to think about when building out your API — An API is the building block of any client-server communication because it helps exchange information in the form of a request-response pattern. In any distributed system, it becomes immensely important to build APIs that are robust in nature and highly available even in the face of a network issue. This…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Nov 26, 2020Threat Modeling For Building Secure APIsPrimer to understand basics of threat modeling and things to keep in mind while building a threat model for an API — Introduction APIs have become one of the most common ways of communication and provide an entry point to any application and their data. Along with the flexibility and ease of integration, APIs also bring with them potential risks, vulnerabilities and threats to their systems. …Microservices4 min readMicroservices4 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Oct 26, 2020A High-Level Overview of Load Balancing AlgorithmsWhich one is right for your deploy needs? — Introduction Load balancing is the process of evenly distributing your network load across several servers. It helps in scaling the demand during peak traffic hours by helping spread the work uniformly. The server can be present in a cloud or a data center or on-premises. It can be either a physical…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Aug 9, 2020How to build a resilient DNS serviceDNS provides an easy, human readable way to map naming for any resources that are connected to internet. You can consider DNS as like a phonebook that stores IP addresses of various domains. …Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published intechburst·Oct 12, 2017Tips for a perfect Grace Hopper Celebration from my own experienceYes! I finally return from Orlando with a brain full of ideas, phone full of photos, LinkedIn full of new connections and a bag full of swags. Grace Hopper was one of the major highlights for me this year and I will always remember 2017 as the year when I…Grace Hopper Conference7 min readGrace Hopper Conference7 min read
Oct 12, 2016Credit History: Journey of a thousand mile for an International Student in USAOriginal Article published on theashani.com The financial topic which is most talked among the international students(I know, first is the student loan part!) is credit history. The day you enter United States you start hearing about credit history from your relatives, friends, colleagues, everybody! I am not a financial expert…Finance5 min readFinance5 min read
May 29, 2016ALLO AND DUO: THE GOOGLE SIBLINGS SET TO RULE THE WORLDGoogle has always been a huge proponent of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and have always been an active participant in trying to develop something cooler than ever. It has come up with Self-driving cars (though market is yet to see it getting launched), better page ranking algorithms to do…Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
May 28, 2016Apocalypse of Unicorn Age: The truth behind the waning of the StartupsApocalypse of Unicorn Age: The truth behind the waning of the Startups Silicon Valley has mostly been dominated by the startups worth $1 billion or more, which we proudly call as the Unicorns. Their glory marked 2015 as the new era of technology and ideas that were established to change…Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
