Atham, Chithira, Chodhi, Vishakam, Anizham, Thriketa, Moolam, Pooradam, Uthradom, Thiruvonam. Ten days, one massive festival. From pookkalams (floral carpets) to sadhyas (feasts) to snake boat races to native art forms to processions to games and gifts, Onam is certainly celebrated with much fanfare by the worldwide Malayali diaspora. Although it has its roots in Hindu…
Month: August 2018
What are Group Membership Protocols? In data centers, failures are the norm rather than the exception. Google fellow Jeff Dean offers an overview of Google’s data center operations: “In each cluster’s first year, it’s typical that 1,000 individual machine failures will occur; thousands of hard drive failures will occur; one power distribution unit will fail,…
“8 hours a day in class, 4-5 hours finishing up assignments and for the rest of the time, I’m hunched over my phone” If you’re anything like this you’ll understand that we spend most of our time indoors, tapping away at either our phones or laptops. ‘Stress’ is our body’s way of responding to demands…