This piece of code in RocksDB caught my eye. The exact same snippet exists in Snappy and many other projects if you search GitHub for the magic constant. I was curious what "problematic" means exactly. After some digging TIL CRC(A + CRC(A)) is always the same constant for any A.
Be wary of people who spew AI hype and screenshot their army of agents but don't seem to be shipping anything but demos. I'm a big fan of AI assistance and use agents and chat everyday, but there's a ton of engagement farming happening out there.
What a shame, BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes are no longer available outside the UK. I've been listening it since around 2010. The show had a huge impact on me. Discovered so much great music thanks to it and met great people as a result.
Has anyone benchmarked S3 compatible object stores like DigitalOcean Space or Cloudflare R2? I use DO Space to store backups and to host my audio library with github.com/akrylysov/bsimp, but not sure how it would work for latency and/or throughput sensitive production workloads.
Artem Krylysov, Staff Engineer, from the Metrics team gives an overview of the Datadog timeseries databases and compares the performance and reliability of two generations of indexing services. He discusses how we use RocksDB for timeseries indexing and why we switched from Go to…
A hand-rolled, not yet optimized binary serializer is twice as fast as the Go implementation of Apache Arrow. Is the issue with Go or the Arrow format itself? I'm leaning towards the latter, but I haven't had a chance to run benchmarks in Rust yet.
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