Otee

Writing

Notes on distributed systems, programming, law, and everything else.

2026

Don't move back to the Writers' May

2025

Personal Project, Public Outage: A Lesson in Incident Management Jul

2023

Ping-pong: Using multiple Kafka consumers to process events Jun
Understanding: Log-Structured Merge Trees Apr
Transitioning from Heroku Free Tier to GCP + YugabyteDB Jan

2021–22

Understanding Tail Recursion Apr 2022
Preventing Phantom Meetings Using Transactions and Serializable Isolation Feb 2022
Kicking Around Packets: Understanding How the Internet Works Feb 2022
Recurse Center: Week Three Jan 2022
My First Clojure Backend Using Ring, Jetty and Compojure Jan 2022
Recurse Center: Week Two Jan 2022
Who Moved My Cheese: Laziness in Clojure Jan 2022
Making Short Links Shorter: Using NGINX + Custom Domain Jan 2022
Recurse Center: Week One Jan 2022
2021 Rewind: A Lawyer Becoming a Software Developer Dec 2021
How to Deploy an App Using Google Compute Engine Dec 2021
For Your Eyes Only: Authentication using OAuth 2.0 Dec 2021
Short, Unique, & Unguessable: Generating Short Links in Twirl Dec 2021
Reliability, Scalability and Maintainability Dec 2021
Defence Against the Dark Arts: How to Store Passwords Securely Dec 2021
Search Relevance Using BM25 Algorithm Nov 2021
Twirl: User Management Nov 2021
Promises in JavaScript and Clojure Nov 2021
Diwali Hack Week Nov 2021
12 Things to Know About HTTP Nov 2021
Finding the Lexicographically Next Permutation Oct 2021
Cardimom: Using Heroku Scheduler to Initiate Triggers Oct 2021
Event and Processing Time Semantics in Blog Aggregators Oct 2021
My First npm Package Oct 2021
Cardimom: A Twitter Bot Oct 2021
Hash Tables from Ground Up Oct 2021
Crisp: A Simple Lisp Interpreter Aug 2021
Cache Replacement Aug 2021
Implementing Graphs Aug 2021
Memoization by Way of Functional Programming Aug 2021
Implementing Binary Search Aug 2021
Implementing Stacks Jul 2021
Implementing Linked Lists Jul 2021
Linked Lists and Arrays Jul 2021
Valid Parenthesis Jul 2021
Palindrome Jul 2021
Creating Objects in JavaScript Jul 2021
Data-types in Javascript Jul 2021
Higher Order Functions Jul 2021
Defining functions Jul 2021
Understanding const and Immutability Jul 2021
Understanding var and let Jul 2021
Understanding Global and Local Variables Jul 2021
Converting Strings to integers! Jul 2021
First Milestone Jul 2021
Preparing to take-off Jun 2021
Installing Linux Jun 2021
Prologue Jun 2021