Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading(incident.io)

593 points by paprikati 2 years ago | 378 comments

An incident.io engineering blog post analyzing collected developer build telemetry to compare M1, M2, and M3 MacBooks and decide whether upgrading is worthwhile.

Measuring Developers' Jobs-to-be-done(substack.com)

54 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 6 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook(tokyodev.com)

418 points by pwim 2 years ago | 299 comments

A TokyoDev blog post by Paul McMahon describing how an email to Tim Cook got Apple to remove the Activation Lock on his returned lost MacBook.

Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases(read.engineerscodex.com)

441 points by gempir 2 years ago | 170 comments

Engineer's Codex newsletter post explaining how Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB to power CloudKit and store billions of iCloud databases.

Accidental database programming(sqlsync.dev)

523 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 265 comments

Blog post by Carl Sverre arguing that frontend apps end up reimplementing database features like caches and indexes, and proposing a frontend-optimized database stack.