Stories by r4um

Transcoding UTF-8 strings to Latin 1 strings at 18 GB/s using AVX-512

Invariants: A Better Debugger?

Graceful Behavior at Capacity

The Modern Guide to OAuth

The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes)

Troubleshooting on a Distributed Team Without Losing Common Ground

Give Your Tail a Nudge

Information Dynamics and the Arrow of Time

The Long Tail of Disaster

The history of sending signals to Unix process groups

Histogram vs. ECDF

Scaling Causal's Spreadsheet Engine: From Maps to Arrays

Zstandard Worked Example Part 1: Concepts

A Tale of a Trailing DOT

Asynchronous Agreement Part One: Defining the Problem

A Cursed Bug

Uniting the Linux random-number devices

Bounded dynamicism with cross-modifying code

Will circuit breakers solve my problems?

OpenTelemetry and the Ghost of Provisioning Past

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