Introduction Pinterest achieved a unique space in the social media apps space. When we open the Pinterest app, we cannot resist looking at good-quality images and scrolling for related images, but system lovers like me immediately notice its smooth algorithm, which keeps suggesting you images. Pinterest calls itself a Visual Discovery Search Engine, where everything … Read more
Netflix is a streaming giant that serves its content to its 300 million users worldwide. It has thousands of series and movies on its platform, and users can watch them on demand. Netflix serves them smoothly. It serves Petabytes of Data daily and handles 15 to 20 percent of Internet traffic in peak hours. It … Read more
Software rewrites are always painful; most companies would like to avoid them. It’s very risky in terms of whether the new software will be stable. will provide every old feature in the same way old software was providing? The cost of the rewrite will be under the assumptions? These questions always haunt CTOs and CEOs … Read more
For those programmers who love how things works, the V8 Engine is the topic of curiosity. JavaScript was mainly used for browsers for basic form validation in old days, but now JavaScript is doing a lot of things, like Calling APIs, accessing own sites APIs and manipulating data. When Node.js came into existence, JavaScript became … Read more
Linux is the best source for Operating System studies for all Programmers, Computer Science Students, System Programmers, and Computer Scientists. A study of the Linux Operating System helps not only to understand the Operating System, but also how a large system works and how multithreading and memory allocation work in computer science. Understanding Process Scheduling … Read more
A Process is executable code of a Program or Operating System task loaded into memory along with its metadata used to manage its execution. A process may have multiple states, like running, ready, waiting, etc A process is not necessarily a program in execution, as it may have multiple states, as mentioned above. In this … Read more
There is one surprising fact about Operating Systems, unlike Web-Based applications, which follows dozens of different architectures or frameworks like MVC, Micro Services, micro framework, Service Oriented Architecture(SOA), the most complex system in the world, the Operating System has only 2 categories Unix-like Operating System Windows NT Family All successful Operating System falls in one … Read more
When Google Seraching was growing they had a risk of Cost. Imagine evey internet user using your site to find best results on the Internet, this site has lot of complex calculations, require huge amout of CPU Power and RAM, and Google started having nightmare that their company will be buried under the Infrasturcture cost. … Read more
Introduction: Instagram was purchased by Meta in 1012 in 1 Billion dollars. When Instagram was a startup, they used AWS for compute and storage AWS S3 were there main engine that stores images, and they introduced video posting in 2013. S3 provided them super speedy development, because they did not need to write storage apis … Read more