Ashutosh Maheshwari (@asmah2107)

Most tech content is noise. But one YouTube channel is quietly archiving the deepest engineering knowledge on the internet. I’ve been watching Ryan Peterman’s (@ryanlpeterman) podcasts over the last few months, and the signal-to-noise ratio is absolutely insane. He is sitting down with: ▪️ Turing A...

Database stuff I’d study if I wanted to understand scaling deeply: Bookmark this. B+ Trees LSM Trees Write-Ahead Logging Two-Phase Commit Three-Phase Commit Read Replicas Leader-Follower Replication Partitioning Query Caching Secondary Indexes Vector Indexes (FAISS, HNSW) Distributed Joins Materia...

A friend of mine recently bombed MLE interview at NVIDIA, they asked: "We need to deploy a Llama-3 70B model on hardware with limited VRAM. You propose quantization. When is this a bad idea?" Here's how you break it down:...