RC week 1001

   |  435 words  |  Kracekumar

This week I spent most of the time on working with Zulip, Erlang and EDHT. Zulip This week, we (Stan, Jennifer and I) continued efforts on implementing message reaction. We made decent progress and had a good create reaction frontend. During the journey, we discovered an interesting bug. Debugging the bug on production minified JS with the debugger was fun. We are close to completing the completing the initial version. It’s still a few days away from closure. [Read More]
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RC week 1000

   |  827 words  |  Kracekumar

This week has been quiet, bikeshedding, holiday week and unproductive week so far in RC. Zulip Zulip is a Python-based open source group chat. RC uses zulip for the internal chat. Unlike GitHub, zulip doesn’t support inline emoji reaction for messages. I am collaborating with Arpith and Stan Zheng to add the missing feature. The first time I came across the limitation of Django’s values method. If you’re considering setting up a group chat for your community or company, try out zulip! [Read More]
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RC Week 0111

   |  471 words  |  Kracekumar

This week most of the time I spent learning Distributed Hash Tables and Erlang. That means I didn’t write a significant amount of code for the project. I am reading DynamoDB paper which is Distributed Hash Table and Distributed Key/Value store. Some implementation like etcd and consul provides Distributed Key/Value store but replicates all data across nodes. So those aren’t Distributed Hash Table. I am reading the one sections at a time. [Read More]
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Side Project Feasibility

   |  516 words  |  Kracekumar

It’s common for developers to work on side projects. The reason why developers work on a side project is a long list of imaginable and unimaginable reasons. My main reason to work on a side project is to learn how things work or to build a utility program for use. One of my recent projects is to monitor the internet traffic and aggregate the traffic based on the domain name - bandwidth monitor. [Read More]
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RC Week 0110

   |  126 words  |  Kracekumar

This week, I reached the first milestone of the project - imon which I worked on for past couple of weeks. imon is a command-line utility to record all network traffic and classify the data according to the domain name. Here is a high-level presentation of the project.I am looking for code review on the project and happy to answer any questions. I wrote a blog post about my experience with Rust. [Read More]
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My Experience With Rust

   |  1588 words  |  Kracekumar

When I was about to leave to RC in few weeks, wrote an E-mail to Puneeth asking for Do's and Don'ts at RC. One of the line in the mail said, Since you are a Python guy, don’t write any Python code while you are there. Do something completely different. I contemplated which language to choose. Other than Python, I knew a decent amount of Go-lang and Javascript. I previously attempted to learn rust but never dived deep into it. [Read More]
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RC week 0101

   |  174 words  |  Kracekumar

Time flies faster than you can perceive. The first half of twelve weeks experimental journey ends this week. This week was the last week for Fall 01, 2016 batch and my batch is due in next six weeks. I wish everyone in Fall 01, 2016 batch Good luck for their future endeavors. I made few friends, helped few people in their project; few helped me in my projects and a lot of unnoticed learnings. [Read More]
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Man's Search for Meaning - Book Review

   |  267 words  |  Kracekumar

What can you do during acute inhuman soul-crushing conditions in life? Hope. This book is about “Hope.” - dopamine for life. Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s presents his life in Nazi death camps and learning for spiritual survival. The narrative is based on his experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice. The author aptly reiterated throughout the book “We cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how to cope with it, and find a meaning to live. [Read More]
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RC Week 0100

   |  208 words  |  Kracekumar

I had a decent progress with my rust HTTP traffic monitor. I read a lot about the different type of packets like Ethernet Packet, IPv4 Packet, TCP Packet, UDP Packet, DNS Packets. I wrote a parser for Physical Layer packet, TCP Packet, UDP Packet, DNS Packet. The parser helped me understand a lot about rust functions, data types like array, vectors, string and string literal. I am not enjoying the relationship with rust lifetimes. [Read More]
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RC week 0011

   |  181 words  |  Kracekumar

This week commenced with the second project at RC in rust. I am building a command line utility to monitor internet bandwidth consumption categorized by websites. I had a general idea of how to go about it and drew rough sketches. As a lot of people suggested me, I am fighting battles with rust compiler in a life time and borrowing. I hit my first road block with pcap library and here is the issue. [Read More]
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