A collection of my thoughts, some of them may be interesting
- -April 20th, 2024
- -November 16th, 2023
-October 20th, 2023
-August 15th, 2023
-August 8th, 2023
-July 12th, 2023
-April 29th, 2023
-March 27th, 2023
-March 20th, 2023
-January 20th, 2023
-March 18th, 2022
+[ FPGA Fun (CHIP-8 in hardware) ] - April 20th, 2024
+[ NWS Postmortem 11/08/23 ] - November 16th, 2023
+[ Side Project Log 10/20/23 ] - October 20th, 2023
+[ Side Project Log 8/15/23 ] - August 15th, 2023
+[ Side Project Log 8/08/23 ] - August 8th, 2023
+[ Side Project Log 7/12/23 ] - July 12th, 2023
+[ Side Project Log 4/29/23 ] - April 29th, 2023
+[ Side Project Log 3/27/23 ] - March 27th, 2023
+[ Side Project Log 3/20/23 ] - March 20th, 2023
+[ Spring Break 2023 ] - January 20th, 2023
+[ Doing C assignments in C# ] - March 18th, 2022
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I'm a computer science student at the University of Texas at Austin. I'm particularly - interested in computer architecture and systems programming, with a focus on - performance-critical applications. + interested in infrastructure, distributed systems, and systems programming.
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Outside of computers, I enjoy biking and weightlifting. I'm also a public transit enthusiast - and I take pictures of trains that I see and train stations that I visit. I also like to - play poker. I'm not particularly good except for - - one tournament run I had, where I came in 5th out of roughly 150. - + and I take pictures of trains that I see, especially rare or special ones.
diff --git a/src/projects.filler.html b/src/projects.filler.html index 2b0cd76..632a926 100644 --- a/src/projects.filler.html +++ b/src/projects.filler.html @@ -1,31 +1,6 @@C, C++, and SystemVerilog
-- [ Git Repo: yacemu ] - [ Git Repo: yayacemu ] -
-- [ Tetris Demo: yayacemu ] - [ Bowling Demo: yayacemu ] -
-- Project Warminster is a collection of 3 subprojects: -
C#, Kubernetes, Rancher, and HAProxy
@@ -33,77 +8,49 @@Nick Web Services is a cloud infrastructure provider service that I created and run. It allows people to deploy containerized versions of their web apps across our multiple - points of presence. It provides geo-distributed high availability by default with no extra configuration + servers. It provides geo-distributed high availability by default with no extra configuration needed from users hosting their webapp with us.
Hardware-wise we use old Dell PowerEdge servers running Proxmox. We then have VMs running - in Proxmox that run Kubernetes clusters. At the peak I had 4 points of presence: Austin, Hill Country, - Schuylkill, and Philadelphia. The deployments are managed through GitOps with Rancher Fleet. Unfortunately, - we only have one point of presence at the moment due to a number of factors, however that should - change this fall. -
-- NWS maintained 100% uptime for the period from 11/8/2023 to 11/28/2024 (over a year!). -
-- The website you're reading this on right now is hosted on NWS! + in Proxmox that run Kubernetes clusters. We have 4 clusters currently: Austin, Hill Country, + Schuylkill, and Philadelphia. The deployments are managed through GitOps with Rancher Fleet.
C++, CMake, and Python
+C++ & Python
[ Git Repo ]- Anthracite is a web server written for Linux in C++. It currently supports both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 and TLS. - It heavily uses a dependency injection design pattern to allow for a high degree of customization. - It currently uses an event-loop threading model and uses the epoll() system call to efficiently detect - events. Previously, it used a connection per thread model. -
-- Anthracite's HTTP request parser is able to parse roughly 27 million requests per second on my laptop, compared - to Boost's HTTP parser which parsed roughly 1 million per second. I'd imagine a lot of this is due to missing - functionality in Anthracite's HTTP parser, but it's enough to get by! While I haven't run extensive end-to-end - tests on the newest version of Anthracite, in the limited tests I've done during development, it's been able to - handle ~300k RPS on my laptop, a comparable number to NGINX. -
-- The website you're reading this on right now is hosted with Anthracite! + Anthracite is a simple web server written in C++. It currently supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. + The benchmarking tools for Anthracite are written in Python. Anthracite is optimized for performance + and rivals the performance of NGINX & Apache in our testing. It uses a thread-per-connection + architecture, allowing it to process many requests in paralell. Additionally, it caches all + files that it serves in memory to ensure that added latency from disk reads do not slow down requests. + Through writing Anthracite, I have learned to use different C++ profilers as well as some general + optimization techniques for C++.
C, ASM, and CMake
- [ Git Repo ] +C#, Kubernetes, SQL Server, and MongoDB
+ [ Project Website ]- RAZZLE is a monolithic kernel. Currently, it's very limited and I haven't made a lot of progress on it. - It's currently single-core but supports preemptive timesharing. It has basic I/O interfaces for ps2, - serial, and vga. It currently has a very limited in-ram filesystem using a proprietary filesystem. - I'm currently working on adding an ATA driver so I can have programs run on RAZZLE without including - them at build-time. -
-- I've made various (minor) open source contributions. I'd say the only one worth anything was the cgroups2 support in - nginx-ingress. + CavCash was a company that I founded which built a debit-based payment system similar to + PayPal and Venmo. I assembled a 5 person team and took on a technical role in the company, + writing most of our backend codebase. Our backend used C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, + and MongoDB. Our infrastructure changed throughout the lifetime of the company, initially + it was on Microsoft Azure using Azure App Service. We then pivoted to AWS using Elastic + Beanstalk. We also ran on Google Cloud Platform using Compute Engine. Finally, we setup our + own servers in-house and managed our deployments with Kubernetes.
- [ kubernetes nginx-ingress: cgroups2 configuration support ] -
-- [ argo cd: fix styling issue on dashboard ] -
-- [ endeavouros: update default i3 config to work with numpad keys ] -
-- [ trivago hamara: documentation update ] + We launched in 2021, with the ability to send money between real banks using the ACH network. + We ended up processing a few hundred dollars in transaction volume before ultimately shutting + down due to a lack of funding. The website is now back up and everything works as it did in + 2021, except adding funds from a bank account is not supported.
C#, Kubernetes, SQL Server, and MongoDB
- +Rust, Postgres, Svelte, TypeScript, and OpenAI's API
+ [ GitHub Repo ]- CavCash was a company that I founded which built a debit-based payment system similar to - PayPal and Venmo. I assembled a 5 person team and took on a technical role in the company, - writing most of our backend codebase. Our backend used C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, - and MongoDB. Our infrastructure changed throughout the lifetime of the company, initially - it was on Microsoft Azure using Azure App Service. We then pivoted to AWS using Elastic - Beanstalk. We also ran on Google Cloud Platform using Compute Engine. Finally, we setup our - own servers in-house and managed our deployments with Kubernetes. + Olney is a job application tracker that aims to be better than using a Trello board or a spreadsheet. + It allows users to create jobs and log custom events such as interviews, assessments, and other communication.
+Svelte, TypeScript
+ [ GitHub Repo ]- We launched in 2021, with the ability to send money between real banks using the ACH network. - We ended up processing a few hundred dollars in transaction volume before ultimately shutting - down due to a lack of funding. + SEPTA Site is a website that I created which can get your trip history, SEPTA Key balance, + and ridership statistics for your SEPTA Key. It utilizes SEPTA's new metro wayfinding instead + of their current wayfinding. I wrote the project to get a basic introduction to Svelte and + so that I could try to improve upon the UX of SEPTA's current website and mobile app.