Phil Eaton
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- Great piece of history: why Linux utilities tend to run poorly on Windows. github.com/microsoft/WSL/…
I see `git clone` is not exactly a speed demon on Windows or am I doing it wrong? - Three basic suggestions for getting into distributed systems - Read DDIA - Follow MIT 6.5840 - Do fly dot io distributed systems challenge (no particular order)
- Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to. No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.
- Any other groups like opendatastructures.org that have complete, public domain implementations of various algorithms and data structures across a few programming languages? rosettacode isn't often great because half the "implementations" just use a built in library.
- That time all your favorite devs teamed up to write a book about coding. And all the royalties went to Amnesty International. Brian Kernighan, Simon Peyton Jones, Bryan Cantrill, Greg Koah-Hartman, Jeff Dean, R. Kent Dybvig, Yukihiro Matsumoto, what a list.
- Love these kinds of projects "I have written a JVM in Rust" andreabergia.com/blog/2023/07/i…
- Replying to @jdcmedlockManagers are wondering, is productivity too high?
- Oracle Database 12.2. It is close to 25 million lines of C code. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184429…
- I wrote a short post on learning the fundamentals of distributed systems, with a few suggested resources to read and a few suggested projects to try.
