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This is a small excerpt from an email exchange between myself and a former colleague, after I had just quit my backend role at a financial exchange and I was trying to decide what to do for work. > Why a database?

Hi, come read systems performance!

k8s manages and orchestrates clusters of containerised applications, by abstracting over pools of computing resources cpu, network, memory & disk and abstracting deploying to a public cloud(s). via declarative yaml, json (but also imperative apis) desired…

Self reminder for each segment of crt-0: int main(void) {} gcc -o nothing nothing.c -Wall -O objdump -S nothing macos: nothing: file format mach-o arm64 Disassembly of section __TEXT,__text: 0000000100003fa0 <_main>: 100003fa0: 52800000 mov w0, #0 10…

Atomics, typically a compiler intrinsic, platform/hardware dependent(x86, risc-v, arm etc), OS dependent. typically at least a pointer size – in rust a usize Usecases/Patterns stop flag/locking primitive/aka naive mutex + busy wait thread progress reporti…

Given the simple query below, how does a database count?

What I learned solving the fly.io distributed systems challenges.

general: https://rbranson.medium.com/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791 Transaction ID wrap around: https://blog.sentry.io/transaction-id-wraparound-in-postgres/ https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion Concurrent Indexes https:/…

💡 This article is a speed run/crash course/concise note/summary and assumes the reader has read or is somewhat familiar with concepts explained in part I of database internals.

💡 I used to amateur invest in 2021/22, I profited from trading tokens in ethereum, constitutionDAO and ethereum name service -- mostly got lucky.

Last edit/updated: 23 Jun 2024 I’ve never believed in the “one true” programming language.

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Listen to the twitter space!

Re-re-re-introducing thumbelina ⚗️🧪🔮.

Quick Start https://ziglearn.org/ https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/769532c2017ed9143f3571e5ac104e50 Kata/Practice ziglings WTFs Scoped Resource allocation opt-in compile time evaluation via comptime Zig is unstable. brew install zig gives 0.10 which is old

Introduction Often as folks who create useful software things we tend to think of ourselves as people who write software for the mythical “user”.

A long time ago, you would give a computer an intensive set of instructions - in assembly or something more sane, and it would compute these instructions one by one, but while it did that - it would “freeze up” you could not really do much else with it.

Are you bad at hacking?

Why do you wake up in the morning?

What are the odds?

In the game Final fantasy XV there’s a curious dungeon called costlemark tower.

Seeing as my blog gets practically no real attention.

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So what’s this all about?

Deprecation lol.

I begin this humble blog post with a beautiful art piece by ramin nazer an artist I randomly came across on the internet.

There comes a time in every classical hero’s journey that he must come to grips with.

Year year year year year year year year year year year year year year year year year so after many many year the time had come for the year to end in a very yearly fashion for the years and years party of the awesomeness of the chateau du vale were simply…

This is a rant on a topic I’m fairly acquainted with and have no formal education in except the various books on economic theory I’ve read over the years purely out of interest.

Hey everyone, Before we delve into this its topic matter, it’s well…controversial?

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