agrim mittal (Everything is a file)

Goroutines vs Threads


Go uses goroutines while languages like Java use threads.


Go's garbage collector


Go’s new [>= v1.5] garbage collector is a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector, an idea first proposed by Dijkstra in 1978.


Garbage collection


Garbage collection is the process of freeing up memory space that is not being used.


Extensively monitoring spark-jobs with StatsD


This post is a continuation with Monitoring Spark jobs with Prometheus StatsD Exporter and Grafana


Exploring the /proc directory


The proc filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem which provides an interface to kernel data structures. – linux man pages


Kafka 101


Kafka is a distributed, horizontally scalable, partitioned, fault-tolerant, replicated commit log service.


Monitoring Spark jobs with Prometheus StatsD Exporter and Grafana


Be notified before something goes wrong.