Stopa articles - 18 total
Database in the Browser, a Spec
How will we build web applications in the future? If technological follows it's usual strategy, then...
[Spec] A Database in the Browser
If you look at the the ecosystem of web applications and measure by difficulty, what apps come to the...
Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser
If you look at the the ecosystem of web applications and measure by difficulty, what apps come to the...
A Database in the Browser
If you look at the the ecosystem of web applications and measure by difficulty, what apps come to the...
A Database on The Client
How do we make it easy to write applications like Google Docs or Figma? This question led me on a jou...
Web Applications from the Future
A new medium appears, and people are so excited about it that they explore most of its possibilities...
Simulating RAM in Clojure
“Computers are all made out of logic gates”. We’ve heard that saying before. We also have a sense tha...
Classes are just a fancy way of writing higher order functions
Joe and I recently kicked of a re-read of SICP. I can say that it is the most interesting textbook I...
The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program
Over the last year, my 13 year old nephew developed a love for hacking. From anime chat, to snake, a...
Assessing Abstractions
Some abstractions are ticking time bombs, while others help you move fast. How can you tell? What fol...
Sets and Probability
I’ve been a big fan of Nassim Taleb’s Incerto. He wrote a series of essays on life, where all the top...
Hacker's Paradise
Note: this essay tries to answer the question “What is the essence of System Design, and how do you d...
Going multi-region
I recently shared a high level idea, on the infrastructure needed to evolve a single-region system in...
Risp (in (Rust) (Lisp))
Many years ago, Peter Norvig wrote a beautiful article about creating a lisp interpreter in Python. I...
On the Coronavirus
The last few weeks has been tough for all of us. I wanted to share with you my personal experience, a...
Blanket Solutions and Microservices
Much of my system design philosophy was forged during my time at Facebook. We did a lot of things dif...
Crazy Ideas
Note: This piece is specifically directed to people who work at mid-large companies. The ideas will s...
10 Offers, 100 Days: Lessons behind the scenes of an L6 jobsearch
In November of 2018 I kicked off a job search that lasted 100 days. I went through 11 onsites at comp...