What’s been keeping me busy these days?

Of late, I have not been adding new pages to my blog. A lot has changed since I last blogged. From an undergrad student at IIT Guwahati to a Software Developer at Adobe India now. Transitioning from one role to another took a lot of time. Now, when I think, I am probably comfortable in the new role, I have started exploring new stuffs. I will enumerate few of the interesting stuffs I have been looking into since last one month or so.

• Page Replacement Algorithms – I have been digging into various page/memory replacement algorithms. For the uninitiated ones here is the wikipedia page which explains various of those algorithms in short – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_replacement_algorithm . I explored the memcached cache replacement policy and its implementation. I will write more about my reading on this subject in my later posts. I will also try to attach implementations of few of the algorithms.
• OpenStack – Openstack is an IaaS Cloud Computing open source project started by Rackspace and NASA. There are basically two sub projects of Openstack – Nova and Swift. I have read the overview of both the sub projects and I am trying to dig more into Nova. I would love to contribute to this awesome project and will start off soon by accomplishing some low hanging fruits of Nova. Will write more about my experience and technical insights I gain in my later posts.
• Art of Trading – I have been looking into various articles related to algorithmic trading. I started off with Optimal Stopping Theorem. Depth first search of the wikipedia article led me to Search Theory, Odds Algorithm, the interesting “The Marriage Problem” . But things start getting mathematically complex once I start digging into Automated Trading Algorithms. ATQs use techniques from signal processing, game theory, gambling Kelly Criterion and time series analysis. Miles to go. Phew!

And yeah, I have also been listening to two songs continuously (read frequently) these days – Madno Re from Lamhaa (2010) and Naam Adaa Likhna from Yahaan (2005).