Sagyam Thapa

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Kathmandu NepalJoined May 2021

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Passionate about all areas of computer science, currently exploring DevOps, SRE and Linux

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An Interactive Guide To Count Min Sketch

Introduction Count min sketch is a probabilistic data structure that can estimate the frequency of items in a stream. It is an improvement over Hyperloglog. While hyperloglog can estimate the number of unique items in a fixed amount of data, count mi...

Jun 25, 20253 min read

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An Interactive Guide To Caching Strategies

Introduction Word cache originates from French word cacher which means to hide. Outside computer science circle it refers to a secret place where you hide things, usually emergency supplies. In computer science though the meaning of the word is flipp...

Jun 20, 20256 min read

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An Interactive Guide To Rate Limiting

Introduction Rate limiting is a must have strategy in every back-end app. It prevent one user from overusing a resource and degrading the quality of service for other users. Here are some benefits of rate limiting It presents resource starvation Re...

Jun 4, 20252 min read

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Instrument your NodeJS App With OpenTelemetry

Introduction Have you ever had a bug that occurred in production and you have no idea what went wrong because your logs won’t tell you exactly what went wrong or a request that takes usually long to process. Sometimes debugging these issues without a...

Jun 3, 20258 min read

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Scaling PostgreSQL with Kubernetes

A case for vertical scaling If you have read any article or a book on system design then you probably know what vertical and horizontal scaling is and benefits of horizontal scaling. Before I explain how to setup proper horizontal scaling with Postgr...

May 25, 20259 min read

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Instrument your NodeJS App With OpenTelemetry

Scaling PostgreSQL with Kubernetes

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Sagyam Thapa

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Sagyam Thapa's blogs

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An Interactive Guide To Count Min Sketch

An Interactive Guide To Caching Strategies

An Interactive Guide To Rate Limiting

Instrument your NodeJS App With OpenTelemetry

Scaling PostgreSQL with Kubernetes