./ahmedhashim

Delivering value to customers in realtime often means performing expensive computations on the fly. As your customer base grows, operations such as creating a shop, generating invoices, or updating an orderbook can fan out and grow quickly. A simple & elegant data structure called a PromiseMap can help ease the burden to a system under such load.

Patterns that occur in life and nature are often non-linear. From comparing frequencies of notes on a piano to Moore’s Law, logarithms provide a way to measure values extremely far apart from one another. When building tools for society, this can also be a useful property to map nuanced human behavior at scale.