PinnedAashray Anand8 bits only: Let’s build a router, part 1Today I’m going to describe the first steps of how I set up a virtual router, to connect multiple private local access networks of virtual…Sep 18, 2021Sep 18, 2021
PinnedAashray AnandSo…who gets the cake, and what do we eat? Two stories of time, order, and consensusWinner takes the cake Imagine yourself sitting in your room furiously working away at your homework for the day, as the voice of your…Jun 18, 2021Jun 18, 2021
Aashray Anand8 bits only: Let’s build a router, part 3We’re back! It’s been a bit longer since my last update to this series, so I’d again highly suggest visiting parts 1 and 2 before going…Oct 26, 2021Oct 26, 2021
Aashray Anand8 bits only: Let’s build a router, part 2Welcome back! If you followed part 1 of this series, then we’ll be answering a lot of the questions you may have had from last time, and if…Sep 29, 2021Sep 29, 2021
Aashray Anand8 bits only: Public and Private Key EncryptionIn my last post, I gave a brief taste of what exactly modern cryptography entails, starting first with some historical cryptography, and…Aug 21, 2021Aug 21, 2021
Aashray Anand8 bits only: What is Cryptography?Data encryption is one of the core tenants of modern computing, and is the key to allowing for the technologies of our digital age to…Aug 4, 2021Aug 4, 2021
Aashray AnandPaxos: A majority to lead us allThe ubiquitous Paxos algorithm is one of the earliest and most widely cited consensus algorithms for designing a replicated state machine…Jul 15, 2021Jul 15, 2021
Aashray AnandTwo-phase commit: The start of our journey to a fault-tolerant replicated state machineI feel like I drone on way too long usually when discussing papers and algorithms, and based on my not so stellar viewership metrics, I…Jul 1, 2021Jul 1, 2021
Aashray Anand8 bits only: DNS namespaces and domain resolution in actionNote: I want to start writing more often, and I think that part of doing that will simply be word vomiting whatever i’m doing onto this…Jun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
Aashray AnandGoogle File System: Paper ReviewThe Google file system (GFS) is a proprietary distributed file system, which was created as a solution to serve the highly concurrent…Jan 15, 2021Jan 15, 2021
