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Shraddha Agrawal

@shraddhaag.dev

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Senior Software Engineer at Ceph, IBM You’ll find me talking about computers, databases, distributed systems, fiction books, movies, music, photography, building Lego and puzzles! 🌐 shraddhaag.dev

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Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag.dev · 29/06/2026

Doing a fun project and the guide I'm following is brilliant, not only for the content but also for these hidden gems in it!

“The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false.” — Alan M. Turing

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Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag.dev · 11/04/2026

very relevant in today’s world. from the second edition of DDIA, gotta say i’m loving reading all the new material!

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Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag.dev · 14/03/2026

started reading the second edition of Designing Data Intensive Applications and we're off to a good start... or are we?

We have also added discussions of sync engines and local-first software, workflow engines and durable execution, formal methods and randomized testing, GraphQL, and various other technologies that are worth knowing about. We have included a bit of legal context as well, by exploring the impact of the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) and related law. We’ve also taken a few things away—for example, as MapReduce is now largely obsolete, we have rewritten the batch processing chapter accordingly, and we sadly decided to drop the Tolkien-style maps.

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Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag.dev · 09/03/2025

Was revisiting some of my past reads and I absolutely love it when small books pack a punch! This one is aptly named, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been - which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.

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Shraddha Agrawal @shraddhaag.dev · 03/01/2025

Have always been into baking and finally doing more of it this year. Learning to make breads, here are my first few baked things: ciabatta and banana bread to welcome the new year!