Originally this was a twitter thread with 2k likes in my now-deleted account. It was pretty condense, and so are paragraphs in this article. Distributed systems are interesting because you don’t have some of the guarantees that you normally have, and are used to, in a single process. An anti-pattern…

Autism doesn’t get diagnosed in Uzbekistan often; only severe cases. There is little awareness about autism, no support in schools, etc. It is a sort of thing that “happens to others”, and people generally don’t talk about it. My son was officially diagnosed with autism here in US around 3…

Originally published at https://www.tumblr.com on March 23, 2014. TL;DR Read three books, watch two classes, solve problems at topcoder/codeforces/projecteuler. Links are below. If you are interested in getting a job at Google, you’ve probably already read Steve Yegge’s famous post (if you didn’t, read it first). It assumes you have…

Today I’ve discovered, thanks to a customer, that two weeks ago ComponentOne Studio® for Entity Framework, the main product I worked on, won Code Project Members Choice 2012 award in the Big Data Solutions category at Microsoft’s TechEd 2012 conference in Orlando. This award is the best thing I ever achieved and thus I am super excited. Such awards are a great source of motivation. Originally published at https://www.tumblr.com on June 26, 2012.