There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer(byroot.github.io)

310 points by ciconia 1 year ago | 231 comments

Atomic polling intervals for highly concurrent workloads(byronwasti.com)

26 points by mmastrac 2 years ago | 4 comments

How many HTTP requests/second can a Single Machine handle?(binaryigor.com)

41 points by BinaryIgor 1 year ago | 29 comments

Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance(shayon.dev)

89 points by shayonj 1 year ago | 29 comments

Balancing Optimization While Coding(breadchris.com)

35 points by breadchris 2 years ago | 37 comments

What’s new with Robinhood, our in-house load balancing service(dropbox.tech)

40 points by ABS 2 years ago | 39 comments

Implement DNS in a Weekend(implement-dns.wizardzines.com)

594 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 68 comments

Julia Evans's blog post announcing a free guide to implementing a DNS resolver from scratch in about 200 lines of Python.

Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server(blog.habets.se)

444 points by guntars 1 year ago | 138 comments

Blog post describing building an HTTPS web server in Rust using io_uring and kernel TLS to avoid system calls on the request path.

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale(dbos.dev)

83 points by KraftyOne 1 month ago | 26 comments

A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft explaining why Postgres SELECT DISTINCT queries perform poorly at scale.

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past(btrblocks.com)

56 points by tkhattra 1 month ago | 61 comments

Blog post by Viktor Leis arguing that S3-centric cloud data architectures rest on hardware assumptions that are becoming obsolete.

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods(somethingsimilar.com)

331 points by doesntmeananyth 2 years ago | 53 comments

A 2013 blog post by Jeff Hodges listing practical lessons for new distributed systems engineers, beyond the CAP theorem and the fallacies of distributed computing.

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.