Blog

• Concurrency bits: spin locks
  A tour of concurrency primitives: spin locks

  programming c++

• Topics in Distributed Systems: Making sense of the CAP theorem
  The CAP theorem and its variations

  distributed-systems

• Metastable failures in distributed systems
  An overview of metastable failures and how to deal with them

  programming distributed-systems

• Grokking generic algorithms in C++
  A closer look at how generic algorithms are implemented in practice

  tutorial generic-programming c++ stl

• Actual programming
  Advice from real programmers on how to actually write code

  programming c++

• Type traits from the bottom up
  How type traits are implemented in the STL

  c++ stl templates

• The Stepanov Language Test
  How to know if a language is suited to generic programming

  generic-programming c++

• How to code it: algorithmic problem solving
  Using Polya’s How To Solve It techniques in algorithmic problems

  tutorial algorithms programming

• Notes on std::rotate
  Analyzing different implementations of std::rotate in the STL

  algorithms programming c++ stl

• A sample of sampling algorithms
  Algorithms for generating samples

  algorithms python

• Relation between std::is_sorted and find_adjacent_mismatch
  How to implement std::is_sorted in terms of find_adjacent_mismatch

  algorithms c++ stl

• The road to std::lower_bound
  How to derive a correct and efficient binary search

  algorithms c++ stl

• Three categories of comments in source code
  How to write good comments

  programming

• Notes on std::unique
  Implementing and using std::unique

  algorithms programming c++ stl

• A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout
  Notes about the book 'A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout'

  books programming