Performance
The Data Structure That's Okay With Being Wrong
·1340 words·7 mins
Photograph By Elimende Inagella
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Software Engineering
Data Structures
Bloom filters — probabilistic, memory-efficient, and surprisingly useful
The One-Line Fix
·1004 words·5 mins
Photograph By Maksym Kaharlytskyi
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Software Engineering
PostgreSQL
Database indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and why one CREATE INDEX beat five new pods
The Fastest Code Never Runs
·1531 words·8 mins
Photograph By Kelly Sikkema
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Software Engineering
System Design
Caching, Redis, and the art of not hitting your database
Scaling the Right Thing
·1336 words·7 mins
Photograph By Kenny Eliason
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Kubernetes
Infrastructure
We scaled the wrong layer first and learned that scaling is a diagnostic skill, not a shopping spree