A 2024 plea for lean software

What is QUIC protocol and how does it work ?

Some patterns are only made practical thanks to Rust's memory safety, and too dangerous to use in C++. Here's a concrete example.

Every SQL statement is limited to return a single, possibly denormalized, table. This design decision has far reaching consequences. (1.) for databases users in terms of slow query performance,...

List of data egress costs for major cloud providers with tips on how to keep costs down.

An NPM user named PatrickJS launched a troll campaign with a package called "everything," which depends on all public npm packages.

#35: Learn More - Hotstar Architecture for Emojis (5 Minutes)

What the **** does that mean?

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Simple websites are better than beautiful ones. I'll repeat that for the folks in the back. Simple websites are better than beautiful ones. Let me be clear what I mean by a simple website. I don't mean a Wordpress site with a minimalist theme. I also don't…

The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.

Someone is wrong on the Internet; he said that all code is technical debt, and I refute that.

Fizz Buzz is a common challenge given during interviews. The challenge goes something like this:

Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to n. If a number is
divisible by 3, write Fizz inst...

Rocq RFCs: documents to discuss changes to the Rocq Prover - rocq-prover/rfcs

How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style

Assortment of technology startup infrastructure recommendations

I was inspired, after reading the excellent blog post Let Futures Be Futures, by the author’s thought experiment of a language in which all functions are coroutines and this is used to express asynchr…

When working on Airbnb’s infra team, I struggled to grow from an L4 engineer to a senior/L5 eng. I came early, stayed late, and said yes to working on anything that needed help - I was as eager as a new grad could be.

SQL for managers is an underrated skill