Stories by r4um

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

Less but Better: Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles

Why “process substitution” is a late feature in Unix shells

Why “process substitution” is a late feature in Unix shells

The Container Throttling Problem

Good efforts preserve bad systems

Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies

Java: Creating Terabyte Sized Queues with Low-Latency

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