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Grivine Bala

@balagrivine·Joined June 2023

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Bala Grivinebala-grivine.hashnode.dev16 posts

About

Software engineer interested in open source and distributed systems

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Nothing here yet.

Grivine Bala's blogs

Bala Grivinebala-grivine.hashnode.dev16 posts

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GBGrivine Balainbala-grivine.hashnode.dev·Jun 3 · 4 min read

The Anatomy Of A Process

Hiring is a process... and so is firing. None of those are the processes we'll be discussing today. They're probably better covered by HR professionals than a software engineer with a keyboard and que

GBGrivine Balainbala-grivine.hashnode.dev·May 13 · 5 min read

Caching Will Humble You

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton I recently took on a side-quest to refactor one of the applications I first worked on when joi

GBGrivine Balainbala-grivine.hashnode.dev·Apr 25 · 3 min read

Be Mindful of Your Config Changes

From Google's SRE book; "The cost of failure is education." Devin Carraway Yesterday; okay, might not be yesterday depending on when you bump into this :), I decided to explore the idea of having a

GBGrivine Balainbala-grivine.hashnode.dev·Apr 18 · 8 min read

The WAL Hole Problem

TL;DR Too Short;Just Read If a WAL write is interrupted by a Unix signal, or completes as a short write, the kernel may leave a zero-filled gap at the reserved offset. During crash recovery, TidesDB'

GBGrivine Balainbala-grivine.hashnode.dev·Apr 11 · 4 min read

When should you fsync directories?

My previous article talked about promises of disk durability, and the fact that you could still lose data even after fsync()-ing a file. This will be a short blog that builds over the previous one, bu