What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings

Published June 26, 20151 min readMarkdown

Mahdi M.

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What you must know about text and encoding irrelevant to the programming language you are working with.

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Mahdi M.
Hands-on technology leader with 10+ years building scalable, mission-critical systems at Goldman Sachs, Brevan Howard and fast-growing fintechs. Expert in cloud-native architectures, distributed data pipelines and high-throughput systems; experienced in migrating legacy platforms and designing AI-enabled services. Proven track record delivering reliable platforms that process millions of transactions daily.

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