Deep Dive - How Kafka hit 1 Million write per second on a $40 HDD
Not NVMe. Not even SATA SSDs. Actual magnetic platters with mechanical arms. The kind of physical, spinning rust drives you can buy for $40 at Amazon.
Report - How Andres Freund saves the Internet
The backdoor had been planted over 2.5 years by a nation-state actor who earned the trust of the maintainer, contributed legitimate code, and then injected malware into the build process itself.
Deep Dive - What it actually cost to Scale to 1 Million Requests per Second
1,000,000 Requests Per Second (RPS) on a single instance. The result? We hit it. But the bottleneck wasn’t the code logic. It wasn’t the database. It was the AWS billing department.
Thought - How Atom built its own Assassin?
They built a runtime that allowed developers to create desktop applications using the web stack (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). They called it Atom Shell (Electron).
Database - How Over-Indexing cost us in Performance?
We love Indexes, they are the first tool we reach for when a query is slow. But do you know every Index you add to speed up reads has a performance cost on every write.
Deep Dive - Why Linux Process creation is weird?
In the Unix world, creating a new process is not an act of construction, it is an act of biological division followed by a brain transplant.