Technical articles about web development, distributed systems, databases, and more.https://yatb.me/en-ushttps://yatb.me/blog/how-to-never-mess-up-binary-search/https://yatb.me/blog/how-to-never-mess-up-binary-search/Binary search is deceptively simple. Off-by-one errors, infinite loops, and wrong bounds trip up even experienced developers. Here's a framework to get it right every time.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://yatb.me/blog/timsort-the-default-sort/https://yatb.me/blog/timsort-the-default-sort/Timsort is the hybrid sorting algorithm that powers Python's sorted() and Java's Arrays.sort(). Lets see why it was such a smart choice for the default sort, and what clever optimizations it has...Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://yatb.me/blog/introduction-to-lsm-trees/https://yatb.me/blog/introduction-to-lsm-trees/LSM Trees are the secret sauce behind databases like Cassandra, ScyllaDB - enabling them to gobble writes like its nothing...Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://yatb.me/blog/are-private-variables-truly-private/https://yatb.me/blog/are-private-variables-truly-private/Are private variables truly only accessible within their owning object?Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT