talim

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systems & backend (go, postgres, linux).

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Jun 25
🧵I took my from-scratch Redis server (in Java) from 1,200 ops/s → 83,000 ops/s (+70x) using flame graphs. No magic. Just profiling and fixing the real bottlenecks. Here's exactly what I found:
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Nov 6
finally finished the draft for the next blog spent a good chunk of time drawing the diagrams in excalidraw stay tuned
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Oct 24
first oss contribution. PR merged
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Oct 18
Started reading Paxos today. Every distributed systems paper somehow manages to make me feel like I understand computers less.
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Oct 14
the go memory model reading - done lecture 5: go threads, raft - done - the lecture was about some debugging techniques and concurrency patterns - some common bugs while implementing raft next: raft paper. wish me luck
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Oct 6
MIT 6.5840 update Read the fault-tolerant VMs paper and sat through Lecture 4 (primary-backup replication). Next up: Go memory model reading.

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