Notes
Notes, learning & credentials.
Things I’m digging into.
2025.11.21 / papers
Dremel: why trillions of rows can still feel interactive
My notes on nested columnar storage, serving-tree fan-out, straggler control, and the design choices that turn web-scale scans from hours into seconds.
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GFS: designing around failure instead of treating it as an exception
A review of large chunks, replication, leases, atomic record append, and why Google optimized sustained throughput for the workload it actually had.
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Borg: what large-scale scheduling taught Kubernetes
A systems review of mixed workloads, quotas, preemption, resource reclamation, failure recovery, and the abstractions that later shaped Kubernetes.
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Learning & credentials.
Cloud coursework and learning badges across architecture, infrastructure, security, and applied machine learning.
Cloud Architecture
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Architecture patterns, service boundaries, and trade-offs across cloud systems.
Cloud Engineering
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Provisioning and operating connected cloud resources as one system.
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML
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Training and evaluating machine-learning models where the data already lives.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Amazon Web Services
AWS services, cloud economics, security, and architectural foundations.
Ensure Access & Identity in Google Cloud
Learning profile ↗Google Cloud Skills Boost
IAM, least privilege, and the identity boundaries behind secure cloud systems.