https://franzego.github.io/Recent content on FranzHugoen-usTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://franzego.github.io/posts/const-in-cpp/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://franzego.github.io/posts/const-in-cpp/<h1 id="the-const-keyword">The Const Keyword</h1> <p>For the longest time, I simply used the const keyword because it was a blanket command to use it. All tutorials and blog advised to use it. They all gave their explanations. I did not understand most of it. I just knew to use const when passing variables of certain types into a function - a const reference to be precise.</p> <p>A few days ago while writing C++ for a little sqlite clone I was writing, it clicked! It just made sense.</p>https://franzego.github.io/posts/log-structured-merge-trees/Fri, 29 May 2026 01:47:21 +0100https://franzego.github.io/posts/log-structured-merge-trees/<h1 id="building-an-lsm-tree-in-go-understanding-the-moving-parts">Building an LSM Tree in Go: Understanding the Moving Parts</h1> <p><img alt="LSM Tree Simple Illustration" loading="lazy" src="https://franzego.github.io/posts/log-structured-merge-trees/lsm_tree.png"></p> <p>Log-Structured Merge (LSM) Trees have become ubiquitous in today&rsquo;s database world. The name has become almost synonymous with modern storage engines. LSM trees sit behind databases like Cassandra, CockroachDB, RocksDB, LevelDB, and Pebble.</p> <p>One thing these systems have in common is their use in write-heavy workloads. The goal of an LSM is to ingest writes at a large scale, as quickly as possible. It sacrifices some read speed for this, because nothing is ever free. Even then, some optimizations can make that tradeoff manageable.</p>https://franzego.github.io/posts/hugo-project-setup/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://franzego.github.io/posts/hugo-project-setup/<p>Trying to set up a personal blog is not quite as straightforward. There was no one stop guide for setting up one using github pages. I had to google a lot, make mistakes and grill gemini for answers. It was not so technical or difficult but after solving the issue, I decided to document the steps i followed for my future self and anyone who ends up in the same position as I was.</p>