Zulip is an open source group chat software which is widely used by companies and organizations. What sets Zulip apart from Slack and other IRC Clients is it’s topic based threading model. Every message has to have a topic which makes it easier for people to find relevant messages instead…

“Kubernetes is a platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts” In simple words, Kubernetes is an open source container management tool. To understand the architecture, how it works and why we need it, we need to understand what a container is. Containers Imagine…

The Google WTM Scholarship, previously known as Anita Borg Scholarship is aimed at providing visibility, community, and resources for women in technology. Google provides this scholarship every year in honour of Dr. Anita Borg’s vision of creating gender equality in the field of computer science. Google usually rolls out a…

What are Group Membership Protocols? In data centers, failures are the norm rather than the exception. Google fellow Jeff Dean offers an overview of Google’s data center operations: “In each cluster’s first year, it’s typical that 1,000 individual machine failures will occur; thousands of hard drive failures will occur; one…

MapReduce is the heart of Apache Hadoop. The MapReduce algorithm has two parts: Map and Reduce. Mapping involves processing a large data set parallelly to generate <key,value> pairs. These <key,value> pairs are fed to reduce which combines the data tuples into a smaller set. Word Count is one of the…