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.
I tend to graviate toward lower level and systems-y things: operating systems, networking, performance, distributed systems etc
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. 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.