Calvin Dsouza

Calvin Dsouza

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Software developer with interests in distributed systems, database internals and software architecture.

Read-Write Phenomena And Isolation Levels In Databases.

May 19, 20248 min read

Introduction: Many a time when working on an application we want to make multiple co-related reads and writes to database to complete a single unit of...

Read-Write Phenomena And Isolation Levels In Databases.

Libuv: Exploring the Core of Asynchronous I/O in Node.js

Sep 17, 20238 min read

Every developer who has used Node.js knows that its runtime, although single-threaded, handles concurrent requests efficiently thanks to asynchronous...

Libuv: Exploring the Core of Asynchronous I/O in Node.js

Logs in Distributed Systems: A Guide

Aug 26, 20235 min read

Introduction: A few years ago, logs had a simple meaning to me: data written to standard output on the terminal or a file to monitor an application...

Logs in Distributed Systems: A Guide

Data Serialization: How Protocol Buffers Achieve Efficiency

Aug 20, 20237 min read

In the world of distributed systems and microservices, we often want to communicate with different services hosted on different servers in various...

Data Serialization: How Protocol Buffers Achieve Efficiency

Understanding Transaction Isolation in DynamoDB: From Concepts to Conflicts

Aug 12, 20234 min read

Isolation in DynamoDB transactions or any data system for that matter is often an overlooked property but it is very important to understand, as...

Understanding Transaction Isolation in DynamoDB: From Concepts to Conflicts

Sending messages to Slack using Incoming Webhook

Nov 1, 20212 min read

If your looking for easy and quick way to send messages to slack channels programmatically then you're at the right place, in this post I will walk...

Sending messages to Slack using Incoming Webhook