Ordered by date of discovery, latest first.
Each entry has the format:
date, [type] name (link) - short description | #tags
Date formatted as DD-MM-YYYY.
Type can be one of blog, discussion or thread.
Important (to deep dive, implement)
2025
September
- 23-09-2025, [blog] setsum - order agnostic, additive and subtractive checksum
- 23-09-2025, [blog] replacing a cache service with a db
- 23-09-2025, [blog] tackling alert noise - How to build and manage alerting systems for enterprise.
- 11-09-2025, [blog] backpressure warpstream - Warpstream explanation on backpressure, how it’s implemented in production systems, what could go wrong and how to fix things.
- 11-09-2025, [blog] sqlite does not have the n+1 query problem - docs really, explains why sqlite does not have the n+1 query problem (hint - same process as app).
- 11-09-2025, [blog] joel test for better code - trying to improve my own process of building software by implementing some of these ideas.
- 11-09-2025, [blog] ssh forwarding - how ssh forwarding works.
- 09-09-2025, [blog] write ahead log on s3 - interesting system detail by chroma that I want to implement.
August
- 02-08-2025, [blog] benchmarking postgres - Planetscale blog on benchmarking postgres, will likely learn a lot on benchmarking in industry from this | #benchmarking #postgres