Berlin

ahsan.io The fall of the wall gave Berlin a rebirth. It's a young, hip city with fascinating history and vibrant culture. I absolutely loved my stay here. Here are some amateur pictures that I clicked randomly over the course of a year and half. [Read More]

Distributed Databases

Databases are one of the more challenging aspects of scaling a service. A monolithic database could meet the requirements in the start, but as the application scales, a single database tends to become the bottleneck. Apart from scaling, there might also be other situations where a single database architecture is... [Read More]

Quick intro to PSK

I was watching a video on YouTube about the Internet’s networking infrastructure, and it got me thinking: “What is the modulation method used by modern electronic devices to communicate with networking hardware?”. The pursuit of an answer took me deep into the rabbit-hole that is communication theory. [Read More]