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Oh man, how wrong was I?

Came across a gem in first few pages of Vishy Anand’s Mindmaster, which resonated strongly with me.

As they say - dont idolize your heroes. Its always disappointing when you see them up close. Such is the case with doyens of technology.

There has been a trend over the last 5-10 years, where more and more money is being thrown at startups who claim (mistakenly) to be making software developers obsolete by use of AI. Of course, as a rule - generalizations are never accurate. However, in this case it’s a bit funny to watch certain valley tech incubators and fund houses keep throwing good money in this area.

Latest Threat Horizons report from Google Cloud is out!

As the first week at the new gig draws to a close, the total absurdity (in a very good way) of the development, build & deploy systems here just blows my mind. If I had to choose just one of those, I would choose the build system.

As seasons change and years pass, this old brain needs to learn new tricks to satiate it’s unending craving for solving ambiguous and hard problems.

In the first post in this series, we went with an overview of congestion control in networks (primarily to whet your appetite). Then, in the second post, we explored some of the basic concepts underpinning most of the loss-based congestion control algorithms.

Ah, so we’re back again. Let’s see if we can cover some distance this time.

In the last post, we went with an overview of congestion control in networks. In this post, lets take a look at some of the concepts mentioned in the previous post and some new ones to aid our understanding of this subject.

It’s been a while since I picked up the proverbial pen to jot down my ramblings. The usual trappings of work and life have encumbered me. But then again, the curious mind just needs to take a liking to something for the muse to strike. So here I am; digging into TCP congestion control mechanisms & the underlying algorithms.