My Year of Reading: A Journey of 52 Books

Published on Sun, 31 Dec 2023|9 minute read

A Small Literary Odyssey

As a software engineer, my work is often entwined with the technical and logical.

And it fits me. I've got that left-brained thing going on, pretty much all the time.

Take 2019, for ...

Breaking Down A Graph Write Query

Published on Fri, 8 Dec 2023|12 minute read

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In this post, I continue this small series on the challenges faced when writing data to a Graph database. For the previous post in this series, see Redis For Graph Write ...

Site Explained

Published on Tue, 7 Nov 2023|Updated on Thu, 30 Nov 2023|2 minute read

Site Goals

Throughout the years, I've accumulated a ton of notes on my life, my work, and my interests. Having recently moved from Evernote to Obsidian, I began concentrating on markdown-focused note-taking. I also ...

Handling Millions of Graph Writes Per Day

Published on Tue, 31 Oct 2023|Updated on Thu, 16 Nov 2023|5 minute read

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Goals

• Answer questions our existing product could not.
• Expand a pre-existing set of searchable properties, to include both ...

Software Vertex Madness

Published on Tue, 7 Nov 2023|4 minute read

In this post, I continue this small series on the challenges faced when writing data to a Graph database: the strategies attempted, their outcomes, and what's coming next. For the previous post in this series, see Handling ...