Van Dang

I'm a coder. Recently prefixed with vibe.

I look for art inside the science. It took a long while — with ups and downs hard enough to leave me seeing differently — before I started looking anywhere else. Less tech fantasy now; more about impact, taste, people, and health.

  1. Technical Business Analyst & Software Engineer

    DXC Technology · Insurance Platform · SaaS Insurance Platform.

  2. Technical Leader / Data Platform Engineer

    PrimeData · Customer Data Platform · Customer Data Platform startup serving enterprise clients.

  3. Software Engineer to Lifestyle (part 1)

    Being a software engineer also helps a lot in how I organize and clean my room.

  4. Two Phases Locking - 2PL

    Two phases locking (2PL) the transactions handles its locking in 2 phases: The expanding phase: No lock can be released The shrinking phase: No lock can be

  5. Snapshot Isolation

    A transaction executing under Snapshot Isolation appears to operate on a personal snapshot of the database, taken at the start of the transaction. When the

  6. Macbook Speakers being dominant

    One of the reasons why Macbook's speaker sounds really good lies in the Driver Implementation, letting it boosts the volume high than the safe threshold when

  7. Concurrency Control

    Databases have long tried to hide concurrency issues from application developers by providing Transaction Isolation. In theory, isolation should make your life

  8. iVim - Vim for iPad

    iVim is vim for iPad and is actually really good, as it (and its plugins, most of them) has already been compiled when installing (even plugins that are

  9. Text Font encoding for Portability

    Fonts can be encoded entirely into base64 and bundled into .css files for portable usages. ^ab4b9f

  10. ARM vs X86

    The X86 CPUs have a very rich instruction set. A single instruction can complete an entire calculation (like multiplication) or move a chunk of data directly

  11. Software Engineer

    Endash/Cigro · Data Platform · SaaS analytics product — dashboards and monitoring for online sellers.

  12. Personal Home Server

    A Personal Home Server that offers several Infrastructure and Cloud Services running in Kubernetes. Designed as a Developer Platform with real subscribed users

  13. Pjhoon

    A personal Data Platform — integrations, analytics engine, and data visualization

  14. Software Engineer

    HCLTech/ANZx · Developer Platform / Cloud Networking · In-house developer platform for ANZ Bank's digital banking unit on GCP.

  15. Archiving PJHoon - Data Platform

    The last 3 points was slowly sapping my spirit. I, myself, would have never produced close to 1 billion records for the "P99 sub-second query" SLA I made when

  16. ChorusKube

    Kubernetes-native orchestration for AI agents — DAG-based secured AI workflows and human-in-the-loop review

  17. ArchCanvas

    Visual architecture tool for AI era — design systems on an interactive canvas, AI turns your diagrams into working code

  18. Being Too Generous

    Generosity seems a good thing, but sometimes it ruins relationships.

  19. GCP Associate Cloud Engineer

    It might be ridiculous to brag about this, and yes it is.

  20. Coding with AI

    Our work more or less shifts to being an architect, a product owner, a designer, a coordinator, a manager, ...

  21. Interview for a Senior position

    I failed many technical interviews, but one of them hit hard, I guess because the full feedback was available to me. Part of the reasons was also because it

  22. Tonal Quality

    Humans have biases based on how they perceive things.