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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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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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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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