Hello! I don’t know how you reach this corner of world but hey welcome to my blog! And thanks for visiting.

Here I write about topics that interest me, hopefully it can be informative and/or entertaining for you :)

whoami

My name is Alex Chua. I am currently at ByteDance helping to move data reliably and efficiently at scale.

Previously I spent time at the Singapore Armed Forces newly established (at the point of writing it’s still relatively new) Digital and Intelligence Service to help digitalise some information management workflows. (obviously I can’t say too much about it)

oh and I also got my Computer Science degree at the National University of Singapore and done several internships because I realise I prefer hands on learning.

interests

These are in no order:

1. Distributed Systems
2. Networking and Operating System
3. Databases

blogs

Below are sites that I find interesting and how I get know of them, again in no order:

• Dan kegel - C10K problem
• Jason Evans - jemalloc guy
• David Miller - netdev
• Graham King - epoll stuff
• Marc Booker - Amazon Aurora DSQL, nagle
• Benjamin Coleman - Rendezvous hashing
• Francesco Mazzoli - Reed Solomon
• Stanislav Kozlovski - obviously kafka
• Robin Moffatt - kafka again
• zhihu blog post by 五花肉 - understanding jemalloc