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Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
"Move fast and break things: A cautionary tale from Facebook's code quality woes."
Graham King
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A developer goes to a DevOps conference
Two days at PDX DevOpsDays, a gathering of system administrators who use version control, and write a lot of YAML.
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Linux: What Can You Epoll?
On Linux what can you turn into a file descriptor and then monitor with epoll?
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epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022)
Linux's epoll API solved the C10K problem, enabling fast and afforable Internet services.
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In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python
"Coder's paternity leave turns into polyglot key-value store adventure"
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The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator
A Rust object that survives program restart thanks to Rust allocators, systemd's file descriptor store, and syscall memfd_create.
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A day in the life of a professional software engineer
Just a normal day reversing linked lists on the whiteboard.
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Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case
My life is not a math Olympiad
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A small Rust binary indeed (2022)
Can we make a Rust program that's as small as it's assembler equivalent?