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Retrying failures in distributed systems is not as simple as it seems - done naively, it can corrupt your business logic or take down your entire system.

Hearing this may hurt you if you are a software engineer, but honestly...

I have been at Amazon for close to 4 years, and it is one of the best places I have worked. But it has a very specific character; some people love it, while others may have a hard time with it.

We use averages everywhere in daily life. The average temperature in summer, your average commute time to work, average meat prices at the market, etc. But are they good enough for software metrics?

When a system is deployed to the wild, there will anyways be stuff that fails in unexpected ways, meaning failure is inevitable because of unknown unknowns.

‘Greedy’ is a class of algorithms, making a locally optimal choice at each step, hoping it leads to a globally optimal solution. Intro…

After 3 years at Amazon, I discovered 3 key lessons that completely changed how I approach things as an engineer...

When there is no monitoring, there is no launch... also, there is no lunch 🥘😁.

Software engineering is the science of trade-offs. As engineers, we design, build, and ship software — and stakeholders almost always want it fast, cheap, and good... But can you make all three happen at the same time?

This is Part 3 of 3 in a series of articles detailing my journey to Amazon. This part contains my experience on the actual steps on breaking into FAANG...

This is Part 2 of 3 in a series of articles detailing my journey to Amazon. In this part of the journey, I share how I landed my first programming job early on the path to Amazon...

It has been 3 years since I have been working at Amazon, but I realized I have never talked about my path towards Amazon. This is Part 1 of 3 in a series of articles detailing my journey to Amazon.

A proper mathematical proof that we cannot go faster than the hard limit of Big Omega (n*logn) with any of the comparison based sorting algorithms.

Elasticsearch uses a term called a "mapping" for defining data types for the fields in your index. It can be tricky to update it for existing fields in your index. Let's see how we can do it.

Two years ago, I was working on a project to automate library operations. One of the main components of the system, namely, borrowing and returning books, relied on uniquely identifying each book by reading its unique RFID tags glued on its cover...

Kirish Salom Dunyo! 👋 Shaxsiy muhandislik blogimda sizni ko’rganimdan xursandman! Mening ismim Azamat, sobiq Kompyuter fanlari talabasi va…