Stories by valyala

Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Scheduler

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Reflect Package

VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry0

Understanding the Go runtime: the "select" statement

Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup

Lies, damned lies, and Elastic's benchmarks

Understanding the Go Runtime: Slices, Maps, and Channels

Claude Code: Creating Kubernetes Debugging AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics

Zero-config Go heap profiling

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Network Poller

Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling

Filesystems: Btrfs

Agentic Coding at ClickHouse

Understanding the Go Runtime: The System Monitor

Porting Go's strings package to C

Top Things Not to Do at KubeCon

Understanding the Go Runtime: The Garbage Collector

Porting Go's io package to C

Benchmarking Kubernetes Log Collectors: Vector, Fluent Bit, OTEL Collector, etc.

Having fun with the Go source code

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