Anirudh Rowjee

Glimpses of Tokyo at sunset, riding the Yurikamome Line (March 2024)

Welcome to my corner of the internet. Here is a map of this website, and some specific subpages -
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I'm an engineer, poet, writer, and sometimes, a photographer.
I enjoy building, reading, writing, playing badminton, and jamming out to all sorts of music. See my proof of work

I am deeply passionate about Distributed {Systems, Databases}. If you'd like to talk about this (fair warning: I will engage), please reach out!

Now

Software Engineer on the Storage Team at Couchbase, working on Magma
Helping build Bengaluru Systems Meetup
Building cpv, a clone of the pv unix utility, to learn Modern C++
Learning about MVCC, DB Transactions, Caches, LSM Trees
Co-Authored a paper on Time-Series Databases (Presented at ICBDA 2024, Waseda University, Japan)

Writing

Fair warning - you will find incomplete posts on this website. That's by design.

2024-06-30 Using GNU Stow

2024-05-23 The Mechanix of Software Engineering

2024-03-23 Refactoring a Large Function in Go

2023-05-30 A summary of "Error Handling in Rust"

2023-05-27 Saaru - Rust India May 2023 Meetup

2023-04-14 You Wouldn't Unlock a Mutex!

2022-12-03 Building Github bots with BunSamosa Bot

2022-07-31 Understanding MapReduce

2022-06-27 Dubai in Pictures - Part 1

2022-05-28 reclaim

2022-04-28 Rustlang 101

2022-02-02 Git Up and Running (Git 101)

2022-01-10 Fixing a Bug in Meilisearch

2022-01-03 What you can learn from Failure

2021-12-29 Boxes

2021-02-03 Decorators by Example in Python 🐍 🍩