Hello 👋, I'm Sudaraka Jayathilaka. Welcome to my blog ☕
I am a programmer living in Singapore. I blog about experiences navigating through my career as a Software Engineer.
Tackling High Cardinality Tags in Metrics
I wanted to share how I tackled the problem of high cardinality tags in a certain metric. But first, let me give some context around the…
Kafka Rebalancing, Kafka lag and Deployments
I have been working with Kafka for a while now. I wanted to blog about some of the common failure patterns I have seen in associated with…
Coding a neural network from scratch
Learning how AI works on a deeper level has always been in my bucket list. I found this amazing video by Andrej Karpathy which walks you…
Handling EI_EXPOSE_REP & EI_EXPOSE_REP2
SpotBugs is a great tool for static code analysis. Recently I got two similar warnings in one of the codebases I work on and I had to fix it…
GatsbyJS for Dummies
Recently I wanted to revamp my personal website. While in the quest for the Ideal template, I came found this super clean-looking template…
Installing OpenJDK on M1 Mac
I recently got hold of a M1 MacBook Pro and faced with the challenge of setting up java developer env. I wanted to build and run a spring…