#445 42 things I learned from building a production database
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42 things I learned from building a production database
Here are some of the things I learned as the tech lead for Delos. My intent in publishing this is to help others in similar roles (leading teams that are building new infra at large companies); much of it may not generalize to different settings.
How to get useful answers to your questions
5 years ago I wrote a post called how to ask good questions. I still really like that post, but it’s missing a few of the tactics I use to get useful answers like “interrupt people when they’re going off on an irrelevant tangent”.
Trie in Javascript: The data structure behind autocomplete
Trie is a variation of tree data structure. It's also referred to as prefix tree or a variation of search tree. Just like n-ary tree data structure, a trie can have n children stemming from single parent. Usually all the nodes in a trie would store some character.
The most used software components in the world
I’ve previously said that curl is one of the most widely used software components in the world with its estimated over ten billion installations, and I’m getting questions about it every now and then.
To learn a new language, read its standard library
The best way to learn a new programming language, just like a human language, is from example. To learn how to write code you first need to read someone else’s code. But who is the best person to learn from? Which code should we read? Where should we look to find it?
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