SVAAR? What is interesting about it? What is vendoring Let’s begin by checking a few open source projects to see how Software Vendoring is defined. In the article that talks about Manage dependencies with GODEP, vendoring is defined as the act of making your own copy of the 3rd party packages your project…

2020 has been a really difficult year for many people, and human beings as a whole. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the world in an unprecedented manner. People in many countries are still suffering physically or/and mentally in such an “unsafe” world. …

Overview With version control (or revision control) becoming a standard practice of modern software development, software release is yet another critical practice that is aimed for packaging a group of changes together and exposing them to users in one go. The frequency of releases for a software product is usually considerably…

What are reference counts Reference counting is a programming technique for storing the number of references to an object. Reference counts can be used to de-allocate resources (e.g. memory) corresponding to the objects in garbage collection algorithms. As soon as an object is no longer referenced (i.e. …

The SRE book and Service Level terms “Service Level Objectives” (or SLO) is one of the foundational sections of the Google SRE book, within which the differences among SLI, SLO, and SLA are carefully explained. …

“Health” plan for 2020 The year of 2020 is doomed to be eventful and full of gray memory. Living in the 2nd largest country in southern hemisphere, we suffered the most prolonged and destructive bush fire in history, just a few months before marching into 2020. …

Overview Nowadays, supporting tabs become a default for most browser applications. Users are accustomed to opening multiple tabs, sometimes dozens of, at a given time to leverage the browsing flexibility. The default location a new tab being opened is usually at the rightmost of the browser tab sidebar, while in some…

Lots of modern C/C++ projects leverage Autotools to create GNU building system e.g. generate make files based on the platform. Executable files (binaries) are generated during the make/compile process, and can be executed locally on the machine where the compilation is performed. …

Time flies .. It’s now in the year of 2019 — time to work out a new year resolution, just as what’s being done in 2017 and 2018. Summary of 2018 2018 was a relatively smooth year to me and my family. The 4th year since we migrated to Sydney…