Today 1st July in India time, marks my 7 year work anniversary and I was lucky enough to work across great companies. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratification and reminiscence a bit about the past and what I aspire to do in next 3-5 years. …

Reference counting is a programming technique to track the reference of an object/memory allocation. It’s used to automatically free memory that has no longer references across the runtime. Redis uses the above technique to automatically manage the deallocation of it’s internal object which stores any kind of data. As we…

Recently, I have been working on Redis OSS and I sometimes write the code on my personal system (Macbook Air 13" 2017) which is sufficient enough to develop systems code. I’ve been using IntelliJ since my internship days and I’m big fan of Jetbrains product. However, IntelliJ Ultimate/CLion comes with…

Before diving into this optimisation technique, if you haven’t read the previous post around strings do take a look at it here. This time around I wanted to talk about numbers. In a database, the most commonly occurring data type is number. …

Strings

I‘ve been going through Redis (Redis is an OSS in-memory database) code base and I can definitely say this is one of the most well written code for maintainability over the years. …