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Stories by pims

Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware (xuanwo.io)
L 151 pts 18 comments by pims Nov 29, 2023 hardwarepythonrust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild (blog.acolyer.org)
L 32 pts 12 comments by pims Jun 28, 2018 databasesperformanceruby Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The paper even mentions our very own https://lobste.rs
Rust is Not so Hairy (nevi.me)
L 28 pts 0 comments by pims Jun 19, 2018 javaprogrammingrust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Kubernetes at GitHub (githubengineering.com)
L 27 pts 0 comments by pims Aug 17, 2017 devopsdistributed Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Wasmer 1.0 (medium.com)
L 23 pts 2 comments by pims Jan 5, 2021 releaserustwasm Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
WireGuard for iOS (lists.zx2c4.com)
L 22 pts 6 comments by pims Dec 20, 2018 iosnetworkingrelease Data / Databases / InfrastructureApple / macOS / iOS thread
zvisor: Zig-based Hypervisor (WIP) (github.com)
L 18 pts 11 comments by pims Mar 14, 2023 virtualizationzig Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
New powerful JSON data type for ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)
L 16 pts 0 comments by pims Oct 23, 2024 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh (hashicorp.com)
L 15 pts 0 comments by pims Jun 26, 2018 apidistributednetworking Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Before and After — the Great Bitcoin Fork (blog.bridge21.io)
L 12 pts 1 comments by pims Aug 1, 2017 merkle-trees Crypto / Blockchain thread
A good description of the fork happening today and its implications.
DDSketch: A fast and fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees (arxiv.org)
L 10 pts 0 comments by pims Aug 30, 2019 compscidistributed Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Vibe coding for teams, thoughts to date (laughingmeme.org)
L 9 pts 5 comments by pims May 28, 2025 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
The long wondrous life of a Tailscale packet (tailscale.com)
L 9 pts 0 comments by pims May 28, 2021 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (blog.scottlogic.com)
L 9 pts 1 comments by pims May 2, 2020 compilerswasm Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning (stripe.com)
L 9 pts 0 comments by pims Aug 16, 2017 api Programming (General) thread
Why local state is a fundamental primitive in stream processing (radar.oreilly.com)
L 9 pts 0 comments by pims Jul 31, 2014 databasesprogramming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Per-Second Billing for EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes (aws.amazon.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by pims Sep 19, 2017 release thread
Fairness in multi-tenant systems (aws.amazon.com)
L 7 pts 0 comments by pims Nov 14, 2020 apidistributed Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP (fly.io)
L 6 pts 0 comments by pims Oct 22, 2020 linuxnetworking Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Embedded Rust Experiments - Is my STM32 MCU running fast? (nercury.github.io)
L 6 pts 0 comments by pims Jan 28, 2019 hardwarerust Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Connect your Service Discovery to Envoy (blog.turbinelabs.io)
L 6 pts 0 comments by pims May 23, 2018 apinetworking Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Simple bridge between Envoy and Service Discovery solutions.
@scale 2017 videos (atscaleconference.com)
L 6 pts 1 comments by pims Sep 30, 2017 scaling Productivity / Career / Business thread
How constants work in Go. (blog.golang.org)
L 6 pts 9 comments by pims Aug 26, 2014 goprogramming Programming (General) thread
Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson (terinstock.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by pims Oct 28, 2024 gamesprogramming Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing thread
An introduction to WebAssembly for JavaScript Developers (pascalpares.appspot.ovh)
L 5 pts 0 comments by pims Jun 3, 2021 javascriptwasm Web DevelopmentProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Cascading Dependency Rebuilds for Jackson CI (cowtowncoder.medium.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by pims May 11, 2024 javarelease Programming (General) thread
How we built a general purpose key value store for Facebook with ZippyDB (engineering.fb.com)
L 4 pts 1 comments by pims Aug 8, 2021 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
ASICs at the Edge (blog.cloudflare.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by pims Nov 27, 2020 hardwarenetworking Data / Databases / InfrastructureMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Nomulus is an open source, scalable, cloud-based service for operating top-level domains (TLDs) (github.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by pims May 15, 2018 networkingrelease Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Nomulus is an open source, scalable, cloud-based service for operating top-level domains (TLDs). It is the authoritative source for the TLDs that it runs, meaning that it is responsible for tracking domain name ownership and handling registrations, renewals, availability checks, and WHOIS requests. ...
Differential Privacy: The Basics (research.neustar.biz)
L 4 pts 1 comments by pims Feb 7, 2016 privacy Security / Privacy thread
The follow up blog post is also interesting: http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/