Stories by valyala

Logs Ingestion Benchmark: Loki, Elasticsearch, VictoriaLogs and ClickHouse

How Go maps work internally: Swiss tables

The data race that wasn't a bug (and the one that was)

AI: LLMs, Agents, Work, and Us – Engineers. Personal Thoughts

How Linux readahead works, and the two ways to change it

Solod 0.4: Better C interop

Two cats, two dogs, four vendors, and the model the AI couldn't find

A tool for reproducing typical production incidents in Kubernetes

Debian code search: fast TurboPFor with Go SIMD

PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour

The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower?

The Life of a Metric

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map

Data races and the memory model in Go

Understanding Go's Sync.Map from API to Hash Trie

Open Source Is Good Marketing

Slop Debt

Reproducing Split Brain on CloudNativePG

Blockstor: A LINSTOR-compatible storage system for Kubernetes

It was surprisingly hard to break CloudNativePG replication

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