Articles 
These articles are a collection of insights from leading engineering teams for several flagship projects at AccelByte and working on distributed system and protocol research at Actyx. However, they don't represent the world view of said companies.
The articles' topics are a bit random now. I need to group these into tags so it's easy to filter which ones are opinions, observations, about coding, etc.
Machine Tree: React aside from the UI
Among a nauseatingly huge number of "modern web UI frameworks" out there, React stands tall. It is a very nimble library to write a JavaScript-based app on top of. React app code can stay way more clear, consistent, and recognizable regardless of complexity, compared to other frameworks. Why? Because unlike other frameworks, which are more of a template engine, React focuses on assisting to bui...
Complex Software: Asynchronous Machines
Complex software can be daunting to author. I'm dissect and reintroduce the concept of asynchronous machines, why do we need it in the first place, and how digging deep into the concept might help conquer complex software.
Significance of Immutability, Extensibility, and Versioning in Persistent Data
Writing a program is all fun and games until someone persists your data. Your user data gets saved in the database, persisted! Some folks use your API, persisted! Your website's JS files cached, BAM, persisted! They're actually gonna be alright until you need to change something. When it's impossible to do without breaking change, emergency meeting!
Auteur
Up until now, the fastest way information can go from one brain to another is through sound waves, pictures, or moving pictures. It is slow, compared to the connection between synapses in the brain. This fast-moving information media is critical to building complex concepts. I believe, a single healthy mind as an authority is a major factor in a successful creative endeavor.
From Rust to TypeScript
I was introduced to Rust in 2018 and has been enamored since. Rust is a system programming language, much like C++. Unlike C++ though, being relatively new, its language design is more modern and sophisticated. Writing with can feel more like writing TypeScript or Haskell. Not surprising since, despite being a language with a very minimum runtime and no GC, it derives many principles of functio...
Beyond Black Hole: A Shower Thought
I imagine that going passing into a black hole would be like walking into a downward slope. The height of the ground in this analogy is the aforementioned "effort" to fill up a space and pass a time. Being lower means needing less effort to fill up space and pass a time, hence being smaller and getting old slower. For the slope angle, the smaller the black hole, the steeper the slope is, and vi...