Akila Welihinda

18 Mar 2022

Did you know there is a type of compiler backdoor attack that is impossible to defend against? In this post I’ll show yo...

15 Feb 2022

While working on the batch scheduling team at Facebook, I noticed something unusual. Facebook was migrating all of its d...

29 Jan 2022

My databases class at UCLA wasn’t very challenging so I never truly understood the internals of databases. This always b...

05 Jan 2022

Using Venmo has always been a frustrating yet unavoidable part of my life. I cannot realistically use another platform b...

18 Dec 2021

Have you ever wondered how computers calculate trigonometric functions like sin and cos? You might recall from calculus ...

08 Dec 2021

My last job required me to learn Scala, which is considered to be a functional-OOP hybrid language. Seeing real-world ap...

17 Nov 2021

My friends and coworkers often ask me what tools I use because they view me as a productivity enthusiast. I have always ...

10 Nov 2021

In this blog post, we are going to run some SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) performance experiments in WebAssemb...

25 Aug 2021

Click has made my Kubernetes experience a pleasure. I adopted Click after joining Databricks because using kubectl was t...