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There is also a [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08318) and a [blog post](https://branchfree.org/2019/02/25/paper-parsing-gigabytes-of-json-per-second/) about this.
I [submitted](https://lobste.rs/s/8dijl0/real_talk_podcast) this a month ago when it first came out, but 6 episodes in, I feel like I have to mention this podcast again.
If you hate the Hacker News/YC/VC/startup scene circlejerk, this podcast is a great listen. Joe Damato (the guy behind the awe...
You may have heard the term "code smells" lately, it seems its being talked about frequently again. In this short post I’ll explain what they are, and a few of them you may run across.
Particularly, it uses red-black trees to store/retrieve connection counts for the limit_conn and limit_req directives, where a server might have a ton of incoming connections to a host.