Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

CS Student, Open source contributor, Software engineer

B.Tech student at IIIT Una passionate about system design, core Computer Science and contributing to open source projects. Experienced with Linux kernel, Git internals and Python Backend Development.

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Git - Upstream Contributions

Contributed patches to Git upstream: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in path-walk.c and improved test coverage in t7412-submodule-absorbgitdirs.sh with multi-round review from core maintainers.

Linux Kernel Staging Driver Patches

Resolved resource leak in octeon ethernet driver and removed redundant MAC address macro from rtl8723bs staging driver. Patches merged by Greg Kroah-Hartman.

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June 13, 20264 min read

Demystifying RESP: The Engine Behind Redis Communication

Learning about RESP (Redis Serialization Protocol), the underlying engine and communication protocol that powers Redis's incredible speed.

June 5, 20264 min read

Redis Under the Hood: Why and How it Uses a Single-Threaded Architecture

Learning about Redis internals, and its single-threaded architecture, I/O multiplexing, and event loops, inspired by Arpit Bhayani's video lecture.

September 12, 20227 min read

Threading and Parallelism

In this post I will document what is threading and how threading can create the illusion of parallelism when threads share a core, but becomes genuine parallelism when threads are mapped to separate physical cores.