⚙️Software Engineering

The Hidden Hop Behind Every Cache Miss

Wed, Nov 4

Discord's video players, now just one

Tue, Nov 3

Cloudflare stops rebuilding the whole DNS zone

Mon, Nov 2

Trust Is the Bottleneck, Not Typing

Sun, Nov 1

Leaked CA keys, receipts, and migrations

Sat, Oct 31

Read-only primaries, smaller floods, huge refactors

Fri, Oct 30

Guarded Doors for Deploys and Databases

Thu, Oct 29

Privacy checks, SSH escapes and power cuts

Wed, Oct 28

Netflix Crops Video, Larson Crops Management

Tue, Oct 27

Mon, Oct 26

Chunked caches, shard groups and noisy neighbours

Sun, Oct 25

Stuck Clusters and Quantum-Proof Keys

Sat, Oct 24

Own VMs, one source of truth

Fri, Oct 23

Smaller Locks, Looser Clocks

Thu, Oct 22

Forged Certificates, Rusty Compilers, Sharded Postgres

Wed, Oct 21

Who Gets In, and Through Which Door

Tue, Oct 20

A Feed Reader With No Open Ports

Mon, Oct 19

Fast-path reviews, eight-plane fabrics, slower fraudsters

Sun, Oct 18

Who Counts as a Service, or a Bot?

Sat, Oct 17

No Deploy Freeze, No Spare Region

Fri, Oct 16

Same Cache Key, Different Bytes

Thu, Oct 15

Heartbeats, fewer bytes, shorter tests

Wed, Oct 14

LZ4 by default, pglz by exception

Tue, Oct 13

SQL in the hot path, features in seconds

Mon, Oct 12

Two Logs, No Peeking

Sun, Oct 11

Exact Counts, Lazy Heights, Unpaused Isolates

Sat, Oct 10

Fast Search, Slow Search, Cheaper Search

Fri, Oct 9

Routers, Buckets and Shopify Goes Native

Thu, Oct 8

Replaying Traffic and Rolling the Root Key

Wed, Oct 7

Cloudflare's birthday, Fowler's notation, Stripe's stablecoin

Tue, Oct 6

One Round Trip, Every Command Twice

Mon, Oct 5

One Write Path and a $3 Battery

Sun, Oct 4

Hot Tenants, Honest Watermarks, Retired Styled-Components

Sat, Oct 3

Catch the Segfault, Skip the Syscall

Fri, Oct 2

Pay Only for the Bytes You Touch

Thu, Oct 1