If you are interested in making your applications reliable, I would like to invite you attend our user group meetup .

I have been trying to understand MVCC ( multi version concurrency control) in databases for a while.

After a little research, I put together this easy to understand blog:

khangaonkar.blogspot.com/2025/03/mult...

It was a lot of fun working with @qianli.dev on this release.

You can now do full stack applications with DBOS.

Pair programming with my cat: She handles the purrs, I handle the bugs. Together, we're unstoppable...

And she does not complain about my variable names.

"‘You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.’ – Wayne Dyer 🌿💭

Take a deep breath, embrace calmness, and remember that your inner peace is your superpower. 💙✨

Happy Sunday !!!

I have house guest for the holidays.

Pashmina. I am pet sitting a friends cat.

Not a pet owner. So learning from her.

Lots of respect for Satya Nadella,

But two questionable video clips making the rounds:

IMHO

(1) Copilot in my experience is terrible. They had no choice but to give it away free.

(2) AI will make SAAS better. Not replace it.

How well a software engineer or team can explain their code is a better indication of quality that most other metrics.

If you understand the code, you can fix any bug easily.

But this quality is hard to measure. You can know only by talking to them or reading their docs.

Weekend project. Sourdough bread

To be successful, it is sometimes better to take the road not travelled.

Two roads diverged in the wood and I,
I took the road less travelled by,
And that made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost (The road not taken)

In the Javascript/Typescript world, bundling/minimization/tree-shaking etc made sense in front-end development where you wanted to reduce the code sent to browsers.

No reason to continue doing it for backends.

It makes debugging much harder.

It increases complexity.

Goroutines in Go and threads in Java are simple for concurrency: start, block, and let the runtime handle the rest.

Async/await in Python & TypeScript? More power but steeper learning curve—managing promises, callbacks, and event loops.

Simplicity vs. Control: Your pick ?

Last month I was busy fixing one race condition after another.

Race condition occurs when two programs or threads try to access or modify the same state at the same time and depending on the timing of which thread executes first, you get different results.

Very hard to debug.

package-lock.json in npm / Typescript/ Javascript creates hell for developers.

I get pinning the version.

But If you update package.json and forget to delete the lock file before npm install, it still installs the old versions.

I don’nt recall having such issues with maven / gradle in Java.

What GenAI platform do you use the most ?

(1) ChatGpt
(2) Claude
(3) Gemini / Bard
(4) Copilot
(5) Other (please specify)

My answer : ChatGpt

When I read the Amazon Aurora cloud native paper 2+ years ago, my first thought was -- "why did they not just do distributed database ? "

Well, It is finally here. At least the early stage.

Separating compute and storage was the first step.

Java GC vs Golang GC

Java prioritizes throughput. Can mean high pause times. High throughtput is good for data processing apps.

Golang prioritizes for low and consistent pause time. Good for low latency apps.