Alexander Zhuravlev

Move Fast With Stable Infra.

[птица-тупица @DrawWithMe2]

Кому интересно (даже если мне одной) расскажу про новогодний мульт с пластилиновым мужиком, которому все Маловато будет. Потому что люблю автора, а эта работа чуть до инфаркта его не довела.

[Denis Bakhvalov @dendibakh]

I open-sourced my book about SW performance. All the source Markdown, images, and Latex files are now open. Anyone can easily build a PDF version.

This book now belongs to the whole community. I invite everyone to contribute to it.

https://t.co/ysRb7ffCQc

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[@[email protected] 🇺🇦 @1101_debian]

Collected a few links for anyone interested in learning compilers in general, and LLVM in particular
https://t.co/qgCaJqjSoh
What are your favorite resources? Please them!

[Dion Almaer @dalmaer]

This is one of the most impactful things I read when I first saw it at Google: “How orgs are like slime moulds” by the platform thinker that is @komorama https://t.co/Aif1arqqQk

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Errr ok wow, I am shook by the new ConvMixer architecture
https://t.co/crUMktQ0ig "the first model that achieves the elusive dual goals of 80%+ ImageNet top-1 accuracy while also fitting into a tweet" 😐

[Eugene Wiehahn @EugeneWiehahn]

Excited to share this Target Group Load Shedding for Application Load Balancer blog I co-authored with John Walker and Michael Han. Load Shedding is an important design pattern...
https://t.co/LPnqCvvn7x

#awscloud #aws #loadshedding #applicationloadbalancer

[Geoff Manaugh @geoffmanaugh]

Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. https://t.co/4BdKXzRsp8

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What are ways you can prepare for a software engineering or engineering manager promotion ahead of time?

A lot, it turns out!

Here are 16 different things you can do to get ahead.

(A much longer article coming out on Tuesday for newsletter subscribers.)

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly.

A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:

[Viacheslav Biriukov @brk0v]

Linux Page Cache for SREs: syscalls, kernel internals and knobs, perf, vmtouch, cgroup v2, LRUs, writeback, mmap() tricks and much more in my series of articles https://t.co/a1CumnfuL4

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

How are projects typically executed in larger companies?

Most of Big Tech lets teams choose how they work. Here's what I've gathered through both a survey and talking with people.

(Please feel free to message if incorrect. Share details here as well: https://t.co/OoioLP3xRK)

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Oh, almost forgot to mention. New pro tip: Hit '.' on any GitHub repo. 😍

[Heidi Howard @heidiann360]

Raft is famous for its understandability but can we make it even easier to understand?

In this thought experiment, inspired by BFT protocols like Tendermint, Casper & HotStuff, we rewrote Raft to store state in immutable trees instead of mutable logs.

https://t.co/vUEPaqYQMn

[RasterGrid @RasterGrid]

New Blog Post: GPU architecture types explained
https://t.co/wX5GnRxdxN

[Sim Kern @sim_kern]

If any of you are under the impression that our billionaires might succeed in "escaping" to space, while the world burns, let me put those fears to rest with what I know from being the spouse of a NASA flight controller. 🧵

[Félix Cantournet @La_Rainette]

You: I code in C because I want to control exactly what the CPU does
The CPU when you write
if x {
foo()
} :

[Alexander Zhuravlev @zaa]

TIL. "Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld https://t.co/HTD5rqmgdB via @YouTube

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

AVIF is an image format that can compress up to 50% smaller than JPEG & 20% smaller than WebP. In Chrome, coming to Firefox & has a few 🔧 options: https://t.co/3LYadoEnWO, https://t.co/2PEftwW3P3, https://t.co/lilf8U0Vbz

[Vicent Martí @vmg]

We saw a serious performance degradation when upgrading Vitess to ProtoBuf APIv2: a 20% increase in CPU usage. To fix the issue, I implemented a new ProtoBuf compiler for Go that makes (un)marshaling up to 10x faster: https://t.co/SNFKb6EEyX