Curious Coder

Published an article on distributed locks. The article covers introduction to distributed locks and contains various scenarios with sequence diagrams that explains lock failures.

@swapnakpanda hellointerview has the best content for system design interviews

If I were a beginner in System Design, I would start by watching these Videos:

@mange_manali The recent job scene in the US is not great

@mange_manali Europe: -salary not as good as US -language barrier -have to do daily chores themselves -people finding it difficult after having kids -no family support US: - mojor problem is visa anxiety rest everything is similar to Europe. US pays way more than any other country on earth

Itna dukh😆😆😆😆

@mange_manali What kind of assessment do you take for software engineering jobs?

I see many folks these days getting rejected at the assessment stage. What's the major reason here?

@mange_manali yes I think so. If enough candidates start doing this practice of not sharing current CTC, things would change in India too, just like US/Europe

@curious_coder1 Oh, is it?

@mange_manali there is always a job for the right talent in the right company

@curious_coder1 haaa fir job milne se rahi

@imJenal I received the LPG cylinder in my hometown after chasing them for 2 weeks

Went to my favorite Chai place Closed due to LPG shortage This is getting serious now.

@divyaporwal_ Great advice, I personally know people who have 50x their starting salary

Junior: Mam TCS me hua h, join karu ya na, resume me bad impact padega Experience in Service Based Company >>>>>>>>>> Gap in Resume Your first job won’t define your career Stop chasing perfect, start chasing growth Even a 3 LPA job can become your stepping stone to 30 LPA

@kritikatwtss @LumaLabsAI is this a paid post?

Pushed it further. Modeled a double booking system using Uni-1 by @LumaLabsAI multiple users hitting the same resource concurrently. Handled contention → single winner → retries and failure paths. Added conflict resolution + retry with backoff. This is where systems usually break edge cases, race conditions, messy flows. Surprisingly, the model held structure and reasoning really well.

@CodeDomeLabs @Powerofbooks3 I have read both of these that I mentioned, both are good. He became famous after writing Sapiens.

@curious_coder1 @Powerofbooks3 I haven't read Sapiens or Homo Deus yet, but the first chapter of Nexus already feels massive. Have you read his other books?

4 Amazing Books Everyone Should Read Atleast Once 📖📚 1. Nexus

@LumaLabsAI Image of a boy writing with "left" hand. So intelligent!

@wallstengine I never understood this guy. My investor brain is not able to understand what he is talking about?

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: "One thing that Perplexity has is, every revenue we make, unlike certain other [wrapper] companies, every revenue Perplexity makes has positive gross margins." "Because we route through multiple different models, we're very efficient in terms of how we spend on the tokens... we have all this advantage with RAG and orchestration and search. We don't actually need to blow up the [context]." "Every single penny we make, we make profits on that. But the overall company is still yet to be profitable."

@shregupta89 good luck to Amazon oncalls

this is actually BIG!! Iran has been targeting Amazon web services Data centres across west asia , already hit Bahrain. It has also threatening to cut Red Sea cables which are dense web of fibre optic cables that carry an ~ 30% of regional internet traffic and connecting continents like Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Amazon is helping to migrate its customers to other region's web servers as part of its mitigation strategies . The war is no longer limited to land , Air or water . its taking over the internet

@callmeMaharani real life!

I need a movie where the villain actually won

@techNmak I would also add Database Internals to this shelf.

This isn't just a bookshelf, it’s a $300k/year survival kit.

@caraxes_redwyrm @sarlloc Funding can happen in any country.

@curious_coder1 @sarlloc If he returns its arrest. If he tries to buy his way out there’s a whole bunch of parents who have been pushed into unsecured borrowing at high interest because of him. Add to that the fact that he hasn’t paid his investors back yet. He’s now in exile till death.

The most satisfying downfall for me. Salespeople from Byju's would insult kids in front of their parents by asking them questions 2-3 grades above their standard to make them feel dumb and sell their shitty course. One of their loser manager was boasting on linkedin how he tricked a poor farmer to take a loan against his small land to purchase a course from Byju's. Not only that, the farmer put that loser manager's photo in the little temple they have build inside their home, thinking this guy is good for their kid's future. Sales people from Byju's would trick people into getting loans telling them what they are filling is an EMI form and not a loan. They would get their money, and the collecting agents would later on harass the family. All this is just a tip of the iceberg of the shady shit of Byju's They did not build a business, they built an empire of malpractices and scams. I so glad the company is bankrupt.

@caraxes_redwyrm @sarlloc After a few years, he might, given what all is going on in this world and how greed is running everything.

@curious_coder1 @sarlloc He won’t. He’s done and can’t return to India. He and Divya gokulnath both deserve jail time.

@shregupta89 I am on sabbatical. Not an AI Engineer, so also wanted to see closely what is going on in AI.

@curious_coder1 So are you starting something of your own this year?

How about we stop chasing FAANG?