Macros are awesome. Macros are powerful. Macros will single-handedly turn your simple, readable codebase into an incomprehensible Lovecraftian nightmare of arcane symbols and unpredictable behavior. And yet, every day, developers continue to reach
This post is a thought dump of a 40-hour worth of no-internet flight time I had
over the last week. It was rough.
Intro
This is not meant to be a linguistics lecture
Gossip protocol is a standard protocol for leaderless distributed systems.
Simple problems at scale is a series of mini-blogs that takes trivial-looking
problems and discusses how hard these problems can become with larger-scale
systems. We are going to start with log tailing. Let's
This is part of a series of posts explaining cryptic tech terms in an
introductory way.
Disclaimer: this series is not intended to be a main learning source. However,
there might be follow
