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Go Performance Tales
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What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow")
A few weeks ago, Alex Gaynor gave a talk at waza entitled " Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are slow ". A video now available , and it is a good watch if you use any of these languages. Even if you don't, or have just viewed the slides, it is still thought provoking.
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Is K8s Too Complicated? 
Joe Beda had a great twitter thread this morning about the complexity of Kubernetes. You can read it in full , and I suggest you do, but I wanted to quote a few things I found to be particularly thought provoking:
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Thoughts on Time-series Databases
Preetam "recently" blogged about catena , a time-series metric store. There was another blog post about benchmarking boltdb by a Fog Creek engineer, also looking to write a time series database. This is something of a pattern in the Go community, which already boasts seriesly , InfluxDB , and prometheus ; there are…
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Wirth's Revenge
Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?
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Notes on the Go2 Generics Draft
These notes are based on the August 27 2018 design draft for generic types in Go2.
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Github has won
This is probably old news to most, but I've discovered recently that github has won.