Hey! I'm Umegbewe pronounced (meh-beh-weh), more known as Great. I write software and spend a probably unreasonable amount of time thinking about computers.
I enjoy programming and have been doing that for a while. What i still like most about it is being able to think about something, build it, break it and see what actually happens. A lot of what i know has come from tinkering.
These days, I'm building Costgraph, with friends. I mostly handle the technical side of things. We're working on making cloud costs easier to understand.
I worked at Botanix Labs and Gala as a Site Reliability Engineer. I've spent a lot of my working life around infrastructure and toolings: Kubernetes, cloud providers, blockchains, CI systems, databases, networking and a large amount of YAML.
Lately I've been involved with macOS systems programming and have written some stuff about it.
I've some open source projects. You can find them on GitHub.
Writing
- How to get home, shared risk, older men and bikes on highways
A heurisitc for getting home safely on bikes through the highway as a passenger but slow
- Per-Process Network Stats on macOS with NetworkStatistics.framework
Exploring the private NetworkStatistics.framework behind nettop and building a small C tool for per-process network counters on macOS
- MVCC in Hyperledger Fabric
How MVCC works in Hyperledger Fabric, why transactions may conflict at commit time and mitigation patterns
- Position Letter Frequency
Other things
Computers do take up a lot of my time, but fortunately not all of it.
I read a lot, especially philosophy, mathematics and history. Mathematics is something I'd like to pursue professionally in some capacity someday. Philosophy became a more serious interest after I read Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy.
One of the books that has had the most impact on me is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness. I also read a fair amount about skpeticism, uncertainty, history, and whatever else happens to catch my attention. I keep some of that in my library.
I'm also interested in African history, particularly pre-colonial history and architecture, languages, football, space, photography, travelling, and jazz rap.
Currently working on a collection of proverbs native to the Ekpeye language.