Stories by avinassh

Demystifying GPUs for CPU-centric programmers

C is not just a bad language. It is a demonic instrument

eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel (official documentary) [video]

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)

How Rama is tested: a primer on testing distributed systems

Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods

It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python

The Advantages of Flexible Typing

LibSQL: Diving into a Database Engineering Epic

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)

Building and Deploying MySQL Raft at Meta

Why `fsync()`: Losing unsynced data on a single node leads to global data loss

Hyperjumps

Zig and Rust

Rust Coreutils: Fixing Low-Hanging Performance Fruit

How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend

A Linguistic Contribution to Goto-Less Programming (1984)[pdf]

It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python

Probabilistic Filters by Example

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