Brian Liao
Tech Talks at Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google
This post was originally posted from the 10% Smarter newsletter. Consider subscribing if you like it! Ever wonder how large scale services at built at large tech companies? I’ve collected tech talks given by Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google to share! Facebook: YouTube Playlist Memcache at Scale, Whatsapp Erlang, Scaling Instagram,... Read more 12 Aug 2021 - less than 1 minute read
Consistency and Consensus
This post was originally posted from the 10% Smarter newsletter. Consider subscribing if you like it! Distributed systems are complex and include many difficult problem to tackle. Fortunately, some techniques have been developed and are widely used in production to deal with these issues in distributed systems. Today, we’ll discuss the rela... Read more 18 Jul 2021 - 9 minute read
Why Database Transactions Are Such A Great Idea
This post was originally posted from the 10% Smarter newsletter. Consider subscribing if you like it! Transactions are one of the fundamental ideas in databases. They enable safe semantics for applications and developers. But what are they and how do you use them? Let’s dive in and find out. What are Transactions? Transactions group multi... Read more 04 Jul 2021 - 9 minute read
How do Databases do Storage and Retrieval?
This post was originally posted from the 10% Smarter newsletter. Consider subscribing if you like it! In past posts, we’ve covered the data modeling side of databases. This post will give an overview of the internal storage and retrieval in databases. Let’s start by compare two different storage engines: Log-structured storage engines (log... Read more 06 Jun 2021 - 8 minute read
So You Want to Up Your Software Engineering Game?
This post was originally posted from the 10% Smarter newsletter. Consider subscribing if you like it! Are you just getting started being an engineer and already feeling overwhelmed? Fear not! This newsletter aims to give a quick 10 minute summary of concepts to help you become a better software engineer every week. I’ve decided to start of... Read more 23 May 2021 - 5 minute read