Issue Summary: A configuration error in backbone network caused an outage for Website’s services that lasted for 27 minutes and caused a 50% traffic drop across the network. The architecture of the network allowed the outage to occur in a certain geography. The outage occurred because while working on another, unrelated issue…

Ever wondered what goes on backstage when you are navigating the web in your browser of choice? You may think accessing a website is just that, accessing like one would any program, yet in that milisecond timeframe that goes by when we press Enter and our targeted website appears, there…

What is IoT? The term IoT refers to “Internet of Things” as even though it may sound as a vague concept due to the simplicity of the world “things”, it could not be better defined. Because IoT encloses a very complex and modern concept that refers to the Internet of everything and anything…

As a programmer, one of the most key attributes you can have is optimization. In programming, this can be put into practice in a wide variety of ways, and the more you incorporate, the better of a progammer you will be. Some recommended optimization practices include being able to explain…

or Everything about mutable and immutable objects in Python — In Python, everything is an object, as you may have already heard and will continue to hear for as long as we shall exist. And objects can be either mutable or immutable — which has nothing to do with ninja turtles as the title of this post alludes to, and…

A complete guide into the characteristics, usage and differences between static and dynamic libraries — Libraries in programming have a similarity with real life libraries in that they include a lot of functions (books) that can be referenced any time. There is no need for you to have every single book available at home, you can make use of the public library in order to…

A step by step explanation of what happens when you type ls -l and hit Enter in a shell — On UNIX systems, the user is interacting with the shell every time they use the terminal .It works as an intermediary between the operating system and the user, and provides the interface necessary for the user to input human readable commands and converts them into something the kernel can understand…

In computer language and logic, one of the most basic concepts is the representation of information through binary language of zeroes and ones. Everything can be interpreted in a different binary combination — be it characters, data, numbers. Because the only participants in the binary language are 0’s, 1’s and…

All about static libraries in C — Libraries? In programming? These so called libraries kind of have a similarity with real life libraries in that they include a lot of functions (books) that can be referenced any time. There is no need for you to have every single book available at home, you can make use of…