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Topological Sort
The topological sort is used in various places, especially when handling dependencies. For example, in Homebrew to resolve the package dependencies and…
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Graphs
From social networks to maps and even in biology, graphs provide a powerful way to represent and analyze relationships between objects.
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Binary Heaps
A binary heap is great when we need quick access to the minimum or maximum element in a dataset.
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Arrays vs. Linked Lists
Linked lists offer better time complexity for certain operations, but can lead to lower performance in practice due to a lack of spatial locality and…
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Gossip Glomers
Gossip Glomers is a fantastic challenge that explores the world of distributed systems.
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One Billion Row Challenge
The One Billion Row Challenge is a programming challenge designed to test how fast we can process a file containing 1 billion lines of data.
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Exercism
Exercism is one of the best ways I know to learn a new programming language.
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Advent of Code
The Advent of Code is by far my favorite coding challenge.
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Data Race vs. Race Condition
All data races are race conditions, yet not all race conditions are data races.
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Mutex vs. Semaphore
A mutex says: "I’m using this resource; no one else can use it until I’m done," while a semaphore says: "There are this many resources available; take…
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Coroutines
Coroutines provide concurrency by pausing and resuming execution without the complexity of running multiple threads or dealing with parallelism.
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Concurrency vs. Parallelism
Parallelism can exist without concurrency, but concurrency can enable parallelism as it provides a structure to solve a problem with parts that may be…
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