@balagrivine
Software craftsman
Software engineer interested in open source and distributed systems
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Jan 31 · 6 min read · I recently picked up this timeless book, Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, a book covering the fundamentals of operating systems. My motivation to read this book comes from partly working on a critical software, a fast embeddable key-value storag...
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Jan 17 · 6 min read · A few weeks ago, I began contributing to TidesDB, an open-source, embeddable key-value storage engine written in C. Coming from an application engineering background, I noticed that many of the design principles I had relied on in large-scale backend...
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Jan 15 · 4 min read · [Note: If you are confident that you know the difference between an operating system and a kernel, and why it would not make sense to call Linux an operating system as many usually do, I’d happily recommend you to read this totally unrelated article ...
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Dec 30, 2025 · 7 min read · 2025 has been a year of extreme contrasts, very low lows and incredibly high highs. For me, it has been nothing short of life-changing. I began the year feeling lost and uncertain about my direction in life. I had goals, yes, but I was weighed down b...
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Sep 16, 2025 · 7 min read · I didn’t have time to write a short article, so I wrote a long one instead. Funny thing: writing a short and accurate article about a complex topic is harder than writing a long one. Same with software, keeping it simple is way harder than making it ...
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