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epoll Under the Hood: How Linux Event Loops Actually Work

Posted on September 9, 2026 teliaz

Every high-concurrency network server on Linux eventually converges on the same bottleneck: not CPU, not memory, but the question of

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Defending Against Supply Chain Attacks: An npm and PyPI Defense Playbook

Posted on September 9, 2026September 10, 2026 teliaz

When a popular npm package turns malicious, the window between publication and detection is measured in hours, and the first

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The Rust Borrow Checker Demystified: Aliasing, Memory Model, and When to Fight Back

Posted on September 8, 2026 teliaz

What the borrow checker actually enforces, what Rust’s memory model promises, and which patterns — RefCell, Mutex, ownership restructuring — resolve the common contention points. … Continue readingThe Rust Borrow Checker Demystified: Aliasing, Memory Model, and When to Fight Back

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The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Reliable Events Without Distributed Transactions

Posted on September 8, 2026 teliaz

Solve the dual-write problem with one extra table and SKIP LOCKED: a working Go implementation of the transactional outbox, plus the delivery-semantics gotchas that bite in production. … Continue readingThe Transactional Outbox Pattern: Reliable Events Without Distributed Transactions

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Go Memory Management Under the Hood: Allocator, Stacks, Escape Analysis, and GC

Posted on September 8, 2026 teliaz

Every go process you ship is quietly running a second program: the garbage collector. It shares your heap, pauses your

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SLOs and Error Budgets in Practice: Building Reliability You Can Alert On

Posted on September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 teliaz

Your service was up 99.95% of the time last month. Great number — until you realize that users filed complaints

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Cursor-Based Pagination Done Right: Keyset Queries, Opaque Cursors, and the Pitfalls That Bite

Posted on September 6, 2026 teliaz

Every API that returns a list eventually has to answer the same question: how do you hand out a million

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Speculative Decoding: Getting 2-3x More Out of Every GPU Pass

Posted on September 6, 2026September 7, 2026 teliaz

Watch a GPU while a large language model generates text and you’ll see something strange: for most of every forward

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Secrets Management in Practice: From Hardcoded Credentials to Short-Lived Identity

Posted on September 5, 2026September 6, 2026 teliaz

Most breaches involving secrets do not involve sophisticated attacks. They involve a credential that was committed to a git repository

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Reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE: Why Postgres Ignores Your Index

Posted on September 5, 2026 teliaz

Every slow query investigation eventually reaches the same moment: you run EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and the plan makes no sense. Postgres

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