Frontend and Backends Timeouts
Postgres just got even faster
They made Kafka 80% faster by switching file systems
Memcached brilliant solution to fragmentation
The Real Hidden Cost of a Request
They Enabled Postgres Partitioning and their Backend fell apart
New course alert - Unlocking Backend Performance
Is gRPC Web Native?
WebSockets is not free
WebTransport is a Game Changer Protocol
Your SSD lies but that's ok .. I think | Postgres fsync
Clustered Collections makes Mongo faster but there is a cost
Prime Video Swaps Microservices for Monolith: 90% Cost Reduction
Postgres, JSON and TOAST #database
A Deep Dive in How Slow SELECT * is
AWS Serverless Lambda Supports Response Streaming
The Cloudflare mTLS vulnerability - A Deep Dive Analysis
The Virgin Media ISP outage - What happened?
GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?
How Linus Tech Tips got hacked
All Postgres Locks Explained | A Deep Dive
Pinterest moves to HTTP/3
How Loom Leaked Session Cookies
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages | Deep Dive
A Postgres Page can fit 291 rows on a single column table
Postgres System Columns Explained (ctid, xmin,xmax)
Postgres Internal Architecture Explained
How Alt-Svc switches HTTP/2 clients to use HTTP/3
Lower and Upper ASCII differs by a single bit (0x20)
yOuR DNS qUeRies wILl eVenTualLy lOok lIKe ThIs (0x20 DNS encoding)
DropBox Removed their SSDs, got 20% faster writes
Analyzing ChatGPT Backend
How the first version of MongoDB
How MongoDB stores documents
How Fast is MySQL on HTTP/3?
How Shopify’s engineering improved database writes by 50% with ULID
The Frontend of a Database
MongoDB Internal Architecture
select count(*) is expensive
ui/ux
How UI/UX can break the backend
How DNS and DHCP Servers Communicate (With wireshark)
Why large certificate chains slow down TLS handshake
TLS certificates and OS certificates stores
Certificates are Large and uncompressed, this RFC fixes it
Google pushes TCP Protective Load Balancing to Linux Kernel 6.2
Thankfully, It’s not Heartbleed
New Udemy Course - Fundamentals of Backend Communications, Design Patterns and Protocols
Operating systems are sneaky
Hash tables are brilliant and simple
