a student and an engineer

hi 👋, 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.

MapReduce

TIL: POSIX Reason for MapReduce(Why use a distributed system?) Lots of data(1 PetaByte), machines had 160 GB storage so can’t process in one machine I/O speed is very low(performance) Fault toleranc...

FamPay Interview Experience

I had applied at FamPay through their Careers page. The process consisted of uploading my resume and then answering some questions regarding the projects I had done and why I wanted to join FamPay. Ap...