"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
Mininet is a popular network emulator that allows us to create virtual networks using virtual hosts, switches, and controllers. Recently, I faced the need to run multiple Docker containers within virtual hosts in Mininet. This…
Service Function Chaining (SFC) leverages Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) to create a programmable and dynamic network paradigm that allows networks to keep up with modern demands. This article briefly discusses…
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is the latest chapter in computer networks that tries to solve some of the pressing concerns with traditional networks. What is NFV and why is it all the rage? How does…
Tournament selection is one of the many selection strategies we use in Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to select individuals for crossover. In this article, we will take a quick look at GAs, selection strategies, and finally…
Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA II) is an evolutionary algorithm, which we use in multi-objective optimization scenarios. This article dwells on the nuts and bolts of the NSGA II algorithm while providing a brief…
We make ChatGPT, Bard and Bing write a simple yet tricky React app and see who wins this battle of the chatbots.…
In this article, let’s try to find how many blocks a recipient should wait for before accepting a transaction. …
In the previous article, we found the probability of double-spending. In this article, let’s look at the probability of an attacker mining a certain number of blocks with a hash rate of less than 50%.…
We tried to understand the 51% attack through the gambler’s ruin problem and the probability of a gambler winning T dollars in the last article. Let’s look at how we can apply the equation we…
This article discusses the solution to the gambler’s ruin problem as a precursor to understanding the probability of double spending. …
So far, we have briefly touched upon the idea of the 51% attack and how it actually allows double spending to happen. In this article, we will start to look at the theoretical basis of the 51% attack.…
ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, open-source web framework that allows you to develop MVC applications and Web APIs with ease. This article will explore how we can easily add authentication to an ASP.NET Core 7.0…
We looked at double spending and immutability in blockchain in the previous article. In this article, let’s discuss forks in blockchain. Forks, as the name implies, splits the blockchain into two branches. A blockchain can…
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) allows you to write Windows applications that run across different platforms such as Windows 10, Windows 11, HoloLens, Windows Mobile (RIP), and Xbox. In this article, we shall look at how…
In the last article, we looked at the process of mining in blockchain in depth. This article will look at how blockchain avoids double spending and how it manages to be immutable. Before we learn…
React 18 introduced a completely new paradigm to the frontend realm in the form of React Server Components (RSC). Next.js 13 followed suit by introducing support for RSC through their app directory, which is in…