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Java Virtual Threads: The Pinning Problem, the Deadlock, and the Fix in Java 24

TurboQuant and Vector Quantization: From Shannon to KV Cache Compression

Garbage Collection: From First Principles to Modern Collectors in Java, Go and Python

Running: A Metaphor for Life

Setting Up Claude Code as a Context-Aware Development Collaborator

Evaluating Claude's C Compiler Against GCC

Optimizing a Kernel from 147,734 to 2,333 Cycles: A Learning Journey

PR Review Guidelines: What I Look For in Code Reviews

Understanding Database Transactions and Isolation Levels

InnoDB Buffer Pool LRU Implementation: How MySQL Optimizes Memory Management

Merkle Trees: Efficient Replica Consistency Detection in Distributed Systems

When Pub/Sub Is Not Enough: Thoughts on the Databricks Paper, Using Kafka as a Foil

How Does Kafka Scale for Log Processing?

How does Kafka scale for log processing?

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Performance Comparison: Tokio vs Tokio-Uring for High-Throughput Web Servers

This article documents an experiment comparing the performance of two Rust asynchronous runtimes, Tokio and Tokio-Uring, in hosting a high-through...

Notes from Crafting Interpreters - Chapter 2 (A Map of the Territory)

I have started reading Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom. This is a book about creating interpreters for a programming language called Lox. I w...

Memory layout of a Rust program

Before we delve into the memory layout of a Rust program, it’s essential to establish a foundational understanding of what a variable is, what it s...