What comes to your mind when you hear someone say Web Development? Probably something along the lines of “designing” a webpage, right? Web Development and Web Design are two totally different areas, interesting in their own way. Web Development is so much more than just Web Design. Let’s get technical. Any webpage has three components:…
For as long as I can remember, I have always loved the beach. There is something inherently so magical and mysterious about it, from the way the waves seem to be dancing as they clash against the sand to how the water stretches on endlessly for miles and miles in the distance. The way the…
Lying on the marble floor, Was a blanket torn apart. But the last valiant thread hanging on, Was the one with a heart. Albeit nothing more than a rag now, Ugliness defined by its skin impaled. But its story was an achingly human one, Mired with quotidian detail. It seemed like yesterday, When…
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…
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…
As kids, the adults were armed with this ultimate tool of controlling our actions, “Good kids don’t do that.” Don’t lie, don’t be selfish, and thousands of such books were written on the idea of right and wrong. A line was drawn on the sand and for better or for worse, it was very clear…
The Rust Workshop organized by Mozilla and hosted in NITK by ACM on 24th February was one of the most anticipated events in college. As Rust is a popular open source language , this workshop gathered a lot of attention and participation across all years. The Speaker was Krishna Kumar T, who currently works in ThoughtWorks…
Men’s tennis in the late 2000s was defined by the rivalry between two titans of the sport. The calm, elegant, precise Swiss master Roger Federer — a man whom most consider the greatest player of all time; a man whose fame and popularity transcended the world of tennis; a man so widely respected that a…
I usually have a terrible time sleeping on buses, and a recent trip home was no exception. I try to keep a movie ready to watch on my laptop, but this time the Power-Cut Gods conspired to ensure that it wasn’t charged. So remembering the recommendation of a friend, I procured a copy of Genesis…