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2026

Slop Debt original ↗

21 Aug 2026

What AI First Engineering Orgs Look Like original ↗

6 Aug 2026

Three Claude Skills I Think Every Org Should Have original ↗

31 Jul 2026

G-Eval, Explained original ↗

14 Jul 2026

AI Workflows Need Topological Sort original ↗

1 Jun 2026

Embedding Models Make Or Break Your Ai App original ↗

28 May 2026

Temporal Primer - Building Long-Running Systems original ↗

20 May 2026

What Matters in Production RAG original ↗

15 May 2026

Structure of Every LLM Chat original ↗

13 May 2026

How LLMs Really Work original ↗

12 May 2026

Your Monolith Is Already A Distributed System original ↗

28 Apr 2026

The Curse of Dimensionality original ↗

23 Apr 2026

Databases Were Not Designed For This original ↗

8 Mar 2026

BM25 original ↗

4 Mar 2026

JOIN Algorithms original ↗

24 Feb 2026

Why Half Your Skills Expire Every Few Years original ↗

8 Feb 2026

Multi-Paxos - Consensus in Distributed Databases original ↗

27 Jan 2026

MySQL Replication Internals original ↗

16 Jan 2026

2025

Bloom Filters original ↗

29 Dec 2025

Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare original ↗

23 Dec 2025

When You Increase Kafka Partitions original ↗

13 Dec 2025

Product Quantization original ↗

7 Dec 2025

The Q, K, V Matrices original ↗

26 Nov 2025

How LLM Inference Works original ↗

22 Nov 2025

What are Blocking Queues and Why We Need Them original ↗

14 Nov 2025

Heartbeats in Distributed Systems original ↗

12 Nov 2025

How Writes Work in Apache Cassandra original ↗

20 Oct 2025

Redis Replication Internals original ↗

17 Oct 2025

How Does a CDN Handle Content Replication original ↗

2 Oct 2025

Why gRPC Uses HTTP2 original ↗

24 Sept 2025

Why Distributed Systems Need Consensus Algorithms Like Raft original ↗

6 Sept 2025

Why Do Databases Deadlock and How Do They Resolve It original ↗

5 Sept 2025

Why and How Cache Locality Can Make Your Code Faster original ↗

4 Sept 2025

Why Eventual Consistency is Preferred in Distributed Systems original ↗

3 Sept 2025

Why does DNS use both UDP and TCP original ↗

2 Sept 2025

How to Write Effective OKRs original ↗

7 Feb 2025

Theta sketches: set algebra over massive streams original ↗

1 Jan 2025

2024

When to Change Jobs - The 3P Framework original ↗

19 Oct 2024

Paper Notes - On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda original ↗

15 Sept 2024

Paper Notes - SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them Pipe Syntax In SQL original ↗

3 Sept 2024

Paper Notes - NanoLog - A Nanosecond Scale Logging System original ↗

28 Aug 2024

Paper Notes - WTF - The Who to Follow Service at Twitter original ↗

21 Aug 2024

Turn System Design Interviews into Discussions original ↗

6 May 2024

2023

How to Remain Unblocked original ↗

16 Nov 2023

2022

Solving the Knapsack Problem with Evolutionary Algorithms original ↗

7 Mar 2022

Generating Pseudorandom Numbers with LFSR original ↗

21 Feb 2022

Local vs Global Indexes in Partitioned Databases original ↗

7 Feb 2022

Partitioning Data - Range, Hash, and When to Use Them original ↗

31 Jan 2022

Partitioning Strategies for Distributed Databases original ↗

24 Jan 2022

Leaderless Replication original ↗

16 Jan 2022

Multi-Master Conflicts - How to Handle Them original ↗

3 Jan 2022

2021

Multi-Master Replication - Why Conflicts Happen original ↗

28 Nov 2021

Multi-Master Replication - Scaling Writes Across Geographies original ↗

3 Nov 2021

Monotonic Reads - How Asynchronous Replication Creates Wormholes original ↗

3 Oct 2021

Read-Your-Writes Consistency original ↗

22 Sept 2021

What Happens When a Master or Replica Fails original ↗

7 Sept 2021

Replication Formats - Statement vs Row-based original ↗

15 Aug 2021

Replication Strategies - Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Semi-Synchronous original ↗

10 Aug 2021

Master-Replica Replication original ↗

7 Aug 2021

Decoding Durability - The D in ACID original ↗

19 Jul 2021

Decoding Isolation - The I in ACID original ↗

7 Jul 2021

Decoding Atomicity - The A in ACID original ↗

2 Jul 2021

Decoding Consistency - The C in ACID original ↗

2 Jul 2021

Architectural Patterns for Distributed Systems original ↗

22 Jun 2021

Fallacies of Distributed Computing Every Engineer Should Know original ↗

17 Jun 2021

Fork Bomb original ↗

9 Jun 2021

Python Internals - Exploring Chained Comparison Operators original ↗

28 Apr 2021

Modeling Udemy's Categories in a Relational Database original ↗

19 Apr 2021

I Changed the Rules for the Python's Walrus Operator original ↗

1 Apr 2021

Fully Persistent Arrays original ↗

15 Feb 2021

How Persistent Data Structures Work original ↗

7 Feb 2021

Constant Folding in Python original ↗

10 Jan 2021

2020

How Python Uses String Interning to Keep Runtime Efficient original ↗

20 Dec 2020

Visualizing Recursion in Python with Just a Decorator original ↗

13 Dec 2020

Count Distinct With Minimal Memory - Flajolet Martin Algorithm original ↗

6 Dec 2020

The 2Q Algorithm - Addressing LRU's Sub-Optimality original ↗

29 Nov 2020

Israeli Queues original ↗

22 Nov 2020

1D Terrain Generation original ↗

16 Nov 2020

MinHash - Fast Jaccard Similarity at Scale original ↗

8 Nov 2020

Time Series Smoothing for Anomaly Detection original ↗

1 Nov 2020

Implementing LFU in O(1)original ↗

23 Aug 2020

Space-Efficient Counting - Exploring Morris' Algorithm original ↗

2 Aug 2020

Why Slowsort is Hilariously Inefficient original ↗

26 Jul 2020

Bitcask - A Log-Structured fast KV store original ↗

19 Jul 2020

Phi Accrual Failure Detection Algorithm original ↗

12 Jul 2020

Breaking Repeating-Key XOR Encryption original ↗

5 Jul 2020

ETAOIN SHRDLU - Using Letter Frequency to Decipher the Ciphered original ↗

21 Jun 2020

Making Integers Iterable in Python original ↗

14 Jun 2020

Structure Composition and Emulating Inheritance in C original ↗

7 Jun 2020

The RUM Conjecture - Storage System Trade-offs original ↗

31 May 2020

Consistent Hashing - What It Is and How to Implement It original ↗

24 May 2020

How Python Handles Integers Under the Hood original ↗

17 May 2020

Fractional Cascading - Speeding Up Multiple Binary Searches original ↗

10 May 2020

Copy-On-Write - When to Use It, When to Avoid It original ↗

3 May 2020

How MySQL Avoids Performance Hits from Table Scans original ↗

26 Apr 2020

Modeling Finite State Machines with Python Coroutines original ↗

19 Apr 2020

Building Better Ratings with Bayesian Averages original ↗

12 Apr 2020

Sliding Window Rate Limiting - Design and Implementation original ↗

5 Apr 2020

The Intuition Behind IDF original ↗

10 Mar 2020

Habits that Make a Great Programmer original ↗

28 Feb 2020