hi đź‘‹, my name is Akshat Sharma, I'm currently a CS grad student working in the File Systems and Storage Lab (FSL) at Stony Brook University.
I'm currently researching secure archival storage systems and their applications. I'm interested in learning about databases, operation systems, distributed systems and have worked in distributed systems at Stony Systems Lab before working in FSL.
Here, I post things that I find interesting/notes that I want to share with the world.
I have recently been seeing a lot of posts talking about how “You are not writing enough”. There’s book clubs reading “Writing for developers”, people tweeting everyday about how writing has...
Personal notes on Generalized Isolation Level Definitions What are isolation levels? SQL Isolation levels(part of ACID) - Introduced to increase performance By improving concurrency Standardized? ANSI...
These are my personal notes on CockroachDB paper CockroachDB: What is it? CockroachDB is a scalable geo-distributed SQL DBMS. Built using global OLTP workloads in mind with high availability and stron...
Last week, me and my team, http418, won the MongoDB Gen AI Hackathon. We created a tool called “tiktokify” which can automatically generate a small 30 second highlight clip from a video using clev...
Notes Bittorrent Bittorrent is already a decentralized file sharing platform. How does bittorrent work? When a client receives a .torrent file, it uses the DHT embedded inside the .torrent file to con...