PinnedAashray Anand·Sep 18, 20218 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…
PinnedAashray Anand·Jun 18, 2021So…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…
Aashray Anand·Oct 26, 20218 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…
Aashray Anand·Sep 29, 20218 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…
Aashray Anand·Aug 21, 20218 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…
Aashray Anand·Aug 4, 20218 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…
Aashray Anand·Jul 15, 2021Paxos: 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…
Aashray Anand·Jul 1, 2021Two-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…
Aashray Anand·Jun 29, 20218 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…
Aashray Anand·Jan 15, 2021Google 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…
