Hi there! I’m Paul. This is my website, where I write mostly about software engineering. I’ve also been known to create stupid websites, but I’m trying to cut down on that.
Some of my work I’m proud of
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Gorilla, an in-memory time series database I helped build, that got written up in a VLDB paper.
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Common Systems Programming Optimizations & Tricks
A blog post on this very website, about common systems programming optimizations. It even made the front page of Hacker News for a bit.
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A blog post on this website that uses graphs and visualizations to try to gain an intuition around latency in a common distributed system architecture.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Do you have a lovable dog?
I do! His name is Mandoo.
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Sir, Are You Classified As Human?