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Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, and the Backdoor Roth
An IRA is a retirement account with tax advantages. The two common types are a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA. They differ mainly in when you receive the tax benefit. If your income is too high to contribute directly to a Roth IRA, a backdoor Roth may provide another route...
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Understanding Kafka Poison Pills
Imagine publishing a message to Kafka topic A. Suddenly, your consumer crashes. It hit a deserialization error. Because the client never successfully processes the record, it never commits the offset. Upon restarting, it reads the exact same record again, failing repeatedly in an infinite loop. This bad record is called a poison pill...
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Mastering Ethereum: Implementing Smart Contracts
These are my learning notes and reflections while reading "Mastering Ethereum: Implementing Smart Contracts" by Carlo Parisi, Alessandro Mazza, Niccolo Pozzolini, Gavin Wood, and Andreas M. Antonopoulos. I plan to update this periodically as I progress through the book...
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