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Engineer obsessed with speed — from Rust to Go, I build, test, and share everything I learn about high-performance systems.

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Drop Traits: The Day We Stopped Restarting Pods Every 8 Hours
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Drop Traits: The Day We Stopped Restarting Pods Every 8 Hours

#webdev #programming #productivity #devops
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9 min read
The Day We Discovered Defer Was Costing Us $78K (And I Almost Missed It)
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The Day We Discovered Defer Was Costing Us $78K (And I Almost Missed It)

#webdev #programming #productivity #backend
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Sunday Reset: 5 Lessons From a Week of Shipping Two SaaS Products
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Sunday Reset: 5 Lessons From a Week of Shipping Two SaaS Products

#productivity #saas #indiehackers #learninpublic
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Kubernetes Operators In Rust: Control Loops That Behave
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Kubernetes Operators In Rust: Control Loops That Behave

#devops #kubernetes #performance #rust
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12 min read
Two Products, One Year, Endless Lessons: A Founder's Honest Recap
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Two Products, One Year, Endless Lessons: A Founder's Honest Recap

#entrepreneur #saas #productivity #startup
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UDP Telemetry Firehose: When Rust on Bare Metal Outperforms Cloud by 10x
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UDP Telemetry Firehose: When Rust on Bare Metal Outperforms Cloud by 10x

#iot #networking #performance #rust
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8 min read
Your team's best AI prompts are dying in Slack DMs
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Your team's best AI prompts are dying in Slack DMs

#ai #productivity #teams #chatgpt
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3 min read
Go Circuit Breakers That Fail Friendly: The 94% Cascade Prevention We Measured
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Go Circuit Breakers That Fail Friendly: The 94% Cascade Prevention We Measured

#architecture #go #sre #systemdesign
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Sunday Night Time Archaeology: The Hidden Tax of Reconstructing Your Freelance Hours
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Sunday Night Time Archaeology: The Hidden Tax of Reconstructing Your Freelance Hours

#freelancing #productivity #timetracking #career
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How to Build a Shared AI Prompt Library for Your Team (Without Slack-Pinning Chaos)
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How to Build a Shared AI Prompt Library for Your Team (Without Slack-Pinning Chaos)

#productivity #ai #tutorial #tooling
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Const Generics: How We Cut 85% of Our Code and Got Faster
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Const Generics: How We Cut 85% of Our Code and Got Faster

#performance #programming #rust #softwareengineering
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11 min read
The 5-Minute Monday Audit That Will Change How You Price Your Work
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The 5-Minute Monday Audit That Will Change How You Price Your Work

#productivity #freelancing #career #business
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eBPF From Rust: The 34ms Ghost We Couldn’t See
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eBPF From Rust: The 34ms Ghost We Couldn’t See

#linux #monitoring #performance #rust
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13 min read
Sunday Reflections: 5 Quiet Lessons From Building Two SaaS Products at Once
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Sunday Reflections: 5 Quiet Lessons From Building Two SaaS Products at Once

#saas #productivity #indiehackers #startup
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Borrowed Strings: API Designs That Cut 94% of Allocations
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Borrowed Strings: API Designs That Cut 94% of Allocations

#api #backend #performance #rust
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14 min read
Why Your Binary Protocol Should Care About CPU Cache Lines
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Why Your Binary Protocol Should Care About CPU Cache Lines

#performance #networking #cpp #programming
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Goroutines To OS Threads: The 73% Latency Drop We Measured By Promoting Work
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Goroutines To OS Threads: The 73% Latency Drop We Measured By Promoting Work

#architecture #go #performance #programming
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The founder lesson I wish someone told me sooner: your first 100 users don't want what you think they want
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The founder lesson I wish someone told me sooner: your first 100 users don't want what you think they want

#startup #saas #founders #buildinpublic
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One Year of The Speed Engineer: Top 10 Articles and What’s Next
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One Year of The Speed Engineer: Top 10 Articles and What’s Next

#devjournal #performance #softwareengineering #systemdesign
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8 min read
Your Team's Best AI Prompts Are Disappearing — Here's the Fix
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Your Team's Best AI Prompts Are Disappearing — Here's the Fix

#ai #productivity #chatgpt #teamwork
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Borrow Checker Wins: Eliminating Races Before They Exist
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Borrow Checker Wins: Eliminating Races Before They Exist

#codequality #rust #security #softwareengineering
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I Lost $2,400 Because I Couldn't Prove My Hours
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I Lost $2,400 Because I Couldn't Prove My Hours

#freelancing #productivity #timetracking #webdev
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Async Traits, Hidden Allocs: Profiling Rust Futures
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Async Traits, Hidden Allocs: Profiling Rust Futures

#performance #programming #rust #softwareengineering
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Zero-Copy Parsers: Rust Pipelines That Outrun JSON
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Zero-Copy Parsers: Rust Pipelines That Outrun JSON

#performance #programming #rust #softwareengineering
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5 Time-Tracking Habits That Save Freelancers Hours Every Week
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5 Time-Tracking Habits That Save Freelancers Hours Every Week

#productivity #freelancing #webdev #career
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Tokio Versus Goroutines: Latency Under Adversarial Load
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Tokio Versus Goroutines: Latency Under Adversarial Load

#go #performance #rust
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Sunday Reset: Two Productivity Drains Worth Auditing Before the Week Starts
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Sunday Reset: Two Productivity Drains Worth Auditing Before the Week Starts

#productivity #freelancing #ai #saas
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Go Context Timeouts That Save Real Money
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Go Context Timeouts That Save Real Money

#backend #go #performance #sre
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9 min read
I Lost 30% of My UDP Packets — Here's What I Learned Debugging It
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I Lost 30% of My UDP Packets — Here's What I Learned Debugging It

#networking #linux #beginners #programming
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io_uring Adventures: Rust Servers That Love Syscalls
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io_uring Adventures: Rust Servers That Love Syscalls

#backend #linux #performance #rust
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What Building Two SaaS Products Taught Me About Saying No
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What Building Two SaaS Products Taught Me About Saying No

#startup #productivity #saas #founder
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The #1 Skill: Selling Simplicity to a Complex World
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The #1 Skill: Selling Simplicity to a Complex World

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Our Kubernetes Cluster Was Burning $18K/Month. I Replaced It With 3 Bare Metal Servers.
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Our Kubernetes Cluster Was Burning $18K/Month. I Replaced It With 3 Bare Metal Servers.

#webdev #programming #devops #security
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I Optimized a Rust Binary From 40MB to 400KB. Here’s How
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I Optimized a Rust Binary From 40MB to 400KB. Here’s How

#cli #performance #rust #tutorial
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The Future of Systems Programming: Rust, Go, Zig, and Carbon Compared
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The Future of Systems Programming: Rust, Go, Zig, and Carbon Compared

#go #performance #programming #rust
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9 min read
Building a Linux Kernel Module in Rust: Zero Panics in 14 Months Production
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Building a Linux Kernel Module in Rust: Zero Panics in 14 Months Production

#codequality #linux #networking #rust
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The Senior Engineer Who Made $400K Did Less Work Than Anyone on the Team
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The Senior Engineer Who Made $400K Did Less Work Than Anyone on the Team

#management #startup #softwareengineering #careeradvice
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Rust Async Secrets That Cut API Latency in Half
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Rust Async Secrets That Cut API Latency in Half

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Resilient Retries: The API Tactics That Shrink Tail Latency
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Resilient Retries: The API Tactics That Shrink Tail Latency

#api #backend #performance #systemdesign
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Why Senior Engineers Choose Boring Go Over Exciting Rust
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Why Senior Engineers Choose Boring Go Over Exciting Rust

#go #rust #softwareengineering #startup
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The Prompt Graveyard: Why Your Team's Best AI Prompts Keep Disappearing (And the Fix)
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The Prompt Graveyard: Why Your Team's Best AI Prompts Keep Disappearing (And the Fix)

#ai #productivity #chatgpt #teamwork
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I Benchmarked Our API Gateway at 100K RPS. What Broke Wasn’t the Gateway
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I Benchmarked Our API Gateway at 100K RPS. What Broke Wasn’t the Gateway

#distributedsystems #webdev #softwareengineering #performance
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Checksum Your Week: The 5-Minute Friday Ritual That Catches $1,000s in Missed Billables
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Checksum Your Week: The 5-Minute Friday Ritual That Catches $1,000s in Missed Billables

#productivity #freelancing #timetracking #career
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I Rewrote Our Payment Gateway in Rust. Revenue Impact Surprised Me
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I Rewrote Our Payment Gateway in Rust. Revenue Impact Surprised Me

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Anthropic Leaked Their Own AI Model — And 8 Other Things That Just Changed Everything
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Anthropic Leaked Their Own AI Model — And 8 Other Things That Just Changed Everything

#news #future #technology #artificialintelligen
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Why Uber’s Go Monorepo Strategy Nearly Broke and How They Saved It
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Why Uber’s Go Monorepo Strategy Nearly Broke and How They Saved It

#architecture #go #microservices #systemdesign
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The Monitoring Gap That Cost Us 6 Hours of Downtime (And the Dashboard That Fixed It)
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The Monitoring Gap That Cost Us 6 Hours of Downtime (And the Dashboard That Fixed It)

#postgres #sitereliabilityengin #softwaredevelopment #devops
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Go Concurrency Hack to Handle 1M Requests/Second
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Go Concurrency Hack to Handle 1M Requests/Second

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My Team Shipped an AI Feature in 2 Weeks. It Took 4 Months to Fix What It Broke.
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My Team Shipped an AI Feature in 2 Weeks. It Took 4 Months to Fix What It Broke.

#generativeaitools #llm #machinelearning #startup
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What Broke When We Pushed WebSockets From 100k to 1M Users
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What Broke When We Pushed WebSockets From 100k to 1M Users

#architecture #networking #performance #systemdesign
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How to Engineer a Single Backend Server for 5M Concurrent Connections
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How to Engineer a Single Backend Server for 5M Concurrent Connections

#backend #linux #networking #performance
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How to Tweak Linux Kernel Settings for Maximum Throughput on 10G Links
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How to Tweak Linux Kernel Settings for Maximum Throughput on 10G Links

#linux #networking #performance #tutorial
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I Failed 3 System Design Interviews in 2 Months. Here’s Every Mistake I Made.
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I Failed 3 System Design Interviews in 2 Months. Here’s Every Mistake I Made.

#programming #coding #architecture #systemdesignintervie
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The $5 Staging Environment: How Poverty Engineering Saved Our Architecture
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The $5 Staging Environment: How Poverty Engineering Saved Our Architecture

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Clawdbot Didn’t Just Read My .env — It Understood What Every Secret Could Do
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Clawdbot Didn’t Just Read My .env — It Understood What Every Secret Could Do

#softwareengineering #cybersecurity #devsecops #cloudsecurity
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Postgres Connection Pooling: Stop the Timeouts
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Postgres Connection Pooling: Stop the Timeouts

#webdev #programming #postgres #fullstack
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