What I read this week - 2024.10.20

A few articles I enjoyed reading this past week.

This week's best article is an excellent read about measuring performance before optimizing. Dustin significantly improved Castro's performance by profiling and then adjusting a few lines of code. This is how it should be done!

Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way

Optimizing Castro’s worker jobs to get your podcasts to you more quickly

CastroPodcasts logoPosted by Dustin Bluck on Oct 20, 2024

Splitting engineering teams into "defense" and "offense" is an interesting concept. I am not sure how well this scales up, but at a certain size, it could be incredibly helpful to ensure people can stay focused on key initiatives.

Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense

Discover how Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, balances event-driven and long-running engineering tasks to maximize productivity in a small team.

GreptileDaksh Gupta

A lot of my day revolves around thinking about what NOT to build and then figuring out HOW to build only what we NEED to build. This article discusses some critical aspects of reliable software design that I can relate to.

Practices of Reliable Software Design

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The team at Actuated built an insanely performant and secure tool for CI/CD based on MicroVMs in Firecracker. This article helped me understand MicroVMs better.

Grab your lab coat - we’re building a microVM from a container

No more broken tutorials, build a microVM from a container, boot it, access the Internet

we're building a microVM from a containerOpenFaaS Ltd

Linux has become the de facto standard for server operating systems, but BSD variants still power much of the Internet. This article highlights why you might choose BSD for your next server OS.

I Solve Problems

The slides, the video, and the text behind my presentation at EuroBSDCon 2024 - ‘Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs.’

IT NotesStefano Marinelli