Stories by r4um

Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires

Common Mistakes in Modularisation

Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

Better Benchmarks Through Graphs

JDK 22 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

Let's Talk about Joins

Memory leak proof every C program

What Is Scalability Anyway?

Estimating Your Memory Bandwidth

Lessons Learned

TIL: Go's CompareAndSwap is not always Compare-and-swap

Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things

BGP in 2023 – BGP Updates

How to stop Linux threads cleanly

Why use strace in 2023? [video]

Time vs. Risk

A Cap Tradeoff in the Wild

Why Unix's lseek() has that name instead of 'seek()'

The One Billion Row Challenge

Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction

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