Bookmarks
A running list of tech-related things I've come across and found worth keeping.
Detailed implementation write-ups
High Memory Usage in Postgres Is Good, Actually
Zero-Downtime Deployments
Git at Any Scale
The Design & Implementation of Sprites
How we made Ramp Sheets self-maintaining
Containers vs Zones vs Jails vs VMs
We Were Wrong About GPUs
Solving 1 Billion Rows in Go
MicroVMs in 2026
CPU Utilization Is a Lie
Do You Even Need a Database?
Why We Built Our Own Background Agent
The End of Push-Wait-Guess CI
Async, Sync, in Between
JPEG compression
Building Ask DoorDash, Part 4
How I Got Computer-Use Clicks to under 10ms on Modal
Latency Patterns for Faster AI Applications
Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents
Letās Handle 1 Million Requests per Second, Itās Scarier Than You Think!
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Making gVisor Filesystems Faster with EROFS
How we built OCA, our AI on-call assistant
Machines inside your own network
When to choose x86-64 vs aarch64
RIP, vector database
Beyond Prediction: Solving the Multiple Knapsack Problem at Scale: How Uber Optimizes Incentives
6 Techniques for Great Shell Script UX
The Twelve-Factor App
Logging Sucks
Loops You Can Trust
Building the missing layer between AI spend and ROI
What Is Kubernetes?
Profiling Go with pprof
Write-Ahead Logs (the most important data structure for databases)