Shivang Nagaria

I was reading a chapter on persistence from a book called OSTEP (a classic OS book by Prof. Remzi). It has all kinds of crazy things that I don’t hear about every day: storage devices, drivers, pages, virtualization of disk, and many other things.

I like listening to music while working or doing chores around the house. Spotify and YouTube Music are fine — I use them most of the time — but they have a problem. They get too personalized. After a while, they’re just playing the same songs again & again. Sometimes you don’t want curation. Sometimes you just want to lose control a little.

I recently got interested in database indexes and want to know how exactly they work. Going through tutorials is one thing but building something from scratch gives you deeper knowledge, so that’s what I did.

Meenal, Sudeep, and Amit went ahead of us. Behind, I and Ishika were lagging. We were making slow progress in this dark trek of Korigad Fort. Just before sunrise, we reached the top, and there were just two or three groups. They are way too far from us.