Learning Postgres under fire
2019.258The index was there. The query was right. Postgres stopped using it anyway.
Performance
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2017
Nginx load balancing decisions
2017.138Algorithm selection, passive health checking, per-endpoint rate limiting, and upstream timing -- the decisions that matter when Nginx sits in front of production traffic.
2016
Switching to Go
2016.342Migrating a payment processing API from Node.js to Go -- what changed, what improved, and what we gave up.
2010
Counting malloc
2010.318Everything else was tuned. The wall was the one function I never wrote -- malloc. A dtrace one-liner showed the paths in.