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• In C/C++, array is just a pointer..

  Published:Feb 1, 2025 |  at 05:04 AM

  Array is derived data type that has been used anywhere due to its ability to constructed primitive data types (int, float, char) and grouped multiple value of the same type together.

• Building an Observability Pipeline for Go Service with Grafana, Loki, and Promtail

  Published:Jan 31, 2025 |  at 07:58 PM

  Debugging a service with less information to analyze could be pain in the ass, especially when there are multiple services communicate to each other. Sometimes we need to move from one server to another just to check the log files and analyze it or utilize `grep` . While obviously not everyone has access to the server itself.

• Accelerating Python with Protobuf: Asynchronous Messaging using RabbitMQ

  Published:Jan 28, 2025 |  at 07:56 PM

  In today’s software industry, applications are becoming increasingly complex, moving beyond simple server-client relationships. Infrastructure complexity has grown significantly with the shift toward Microservices Architecture. In this approach, software is broken down into smaller, independent services. With these separate components, ensuring effective communication between services is crucial.

• HashMap, Between Separate Chaining and Open Addressing, the What and the How

  Published:Jan 24, 2025 |  at 07:55 PM

  HashMap, a data structure that efficiently stores key-value pairs, also a data structured loved by programmer because of its advantage with fast lookup, insertion, and deletion which typically have an average time complexity of O(1). It uses hash function to compute an index into an array of buckets where the value can be found.

• Why signed int -10 is higher than unsigned int 5 in C?

  Published:Jan 21, 2025 |  at 06:08 PM

  I just scrolling Twitter when I found an interesting tweet about C code screenshot and its behavior, as shown in the attached image, the code looks just fine until you look at code execution result.