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This page makes heavy use of JavaScript to visualise the concepts discussed. Viewing it without JavaScript will be a strange experience, as the text talks about the visualisations. I strongly recommend either enabling JavaScript, or not wasting your time. Everyone has a set of tools they use to solve problems. Growing this set helps you to solve ever more difficult problems. In this post, I'm goin

This page makes heavy use of JavaScript to visualise the concepts discussed. Viewing it without JavaScript will be a strange experience, as the text talks about the visualisations. I strongly recommend either enabling JavaScript, or not wasting your time. As a programmer, you use hash functions every day. They're used in databases to optimise queries, they're used in data structures to make things

One thing that all programs on your computer have in common is a need for memory. Programs need to be loaded from your hard drive into memory before they can be run. While running, the majority of what programs do is load values from memory, do some computation on them, and then store the result back in memory. In this post I'm going to introduce you to the basics of memory allocation. Allocators

Past a certain point, web applications outgrow a single server deployment. Companies either want to increase their availability, scalability, or both! To do this, they deploy their application across multiple servers with a load balancer in front to distribute incoming requests. Big companies may need thousands of servers running their web application to handle the load. In this post we're going t