- What is Elasticsearch, and When Should You Use One?
Start here. What an inverted index actually does that a database index cannot, the queries that justify running a second datastore, and the ones that do not. The vocabulary you need before anything else makes sense — cluster, node, index, shard, replica, document — and the single most important consequence of the whole design: the index is a derived copy, and treating it as the source of truth is the mistake every other lesson in this track is arranged to prevent.
- Improve Your Coding Skills
Years of experience do not automatically make you a better programmer. I have met developers with a decade on the job who write the same mediocre code they wrote in year two. The difference between a good developer and a great one is deliberate practice — consistently pushing yourself outside your…
- Postgres – Indexes
Every index in this post is created on a 400,000-row table and the plan before and after is shown. B-tree and why column order in a composite index decides whether it is used, partial indexes for the status you actually query, expression indexes for lower(email), covering indexes and index-only scans, GIN for jsonb, and the write cost that makes an unused index worse than no index.
- Java Interview – String
1. What is String in Java? String is a Class in java and defined in java.lang package. It’s not a primitive data type like int and long. String class represents character Strings. String is used in almost all the Java applications and there are some interesting facts we should know about String.…
- Share ideas and findings
Software development is a team sport. The best engineers are not just skilled coders — they are effective communicators who multiply their team’s output by sharing knowledge. If your ideas live only in your head, they die the moment you leave the project. Sharing ideas and findings is how teams…