Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy | Awesome Agents
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
Back in November last year, I started a new job at Intercom, and one of the first projects I got to work on was improving the Intercom monolith CI with some of my new colleagues.
Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about making Bundler faster, both by improving it directly, or by reimplementing it in another language, and while it may surprise some, that didn’t excite me much.
Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web.
ybouane/liquidglass: A liquid glass effect library for the web. Apply realistic glass refraction, blur, chromatic aberration, and lighting effects to any HTML element using WebGL shaders.
A liquid glass effect library for the web. Apply realistic glass refraction, blur, chromatic aberration, and lighting effects to any HTML element using WebGL shaders. - ybouane/liquidglass
There is an implicit contract at the foundation of every database architecture decision you have ever made. You probably never wrote it down. Nobody does. It just… existed.
Managed Postgres, Examined: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
AWS runs unmodified PostgreSQL on EC2 instances, handling backups and failover via storage-layer replication. Learn what RDS actually is—and what it isn't.
pgrwl/pgrwl: Cloud-native continuous backup for PostgreSQL - WAL/base-backup streaming, compression, encryption, retention, and monitoring in a single binary.
Cloud-native continuous backup for PostgreSQL - WAL/base-backup streaming, compression, encryption, retention, and monitoring in a single binary. - pgrwl/pgrwl
How Postgres CTIDs Gave Me a 30x Speedup on Processing 200 Million Rows
Indexes don't solve everything at scale. A story of how I cut 3-days worth of execution time down to a few hours by exploiting PostgreSQL's physical row addresses for cache-friendly sequential reads.
Postgres performance regression: are we there yet? | My DBA Notebook
Every year, PostgreSQL gets faster. Researchers benchmarking the optimizer from version 8 through 16 found an average 15% performance improvement per major release. That’s a decade of consistent, measurable progress. The project has been doing this since 1996.
So when a headline claimed Linux 7.0 just halved PostgreSQL throughput, DBAs, Sys Admins, and DevOps started panicking (in particular, those working with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS which plan to ship Linux kernel 7.
pgrust: Rebuilding Postgres in Rust with AI - malisper.me
I’ve written dozens of blog posts about Postgres internals. Postgres is one of the greatest databases out there. But from chatting with a lot of my friends at startups, I’ve seen consistent challenges. Two weeks ago I started rebuilding it from scratch in Rust with AI and now I have 250k lines of code, a […]
How we added continuous Go heap profiling to coroot-node-agent without requiring any code changes, pprof endpoints, or annotations, by reading runtime.mbuckets directly from process memory.
Raftly: Building a Production-Grade Raft Implementation from Scratch
A deep technical walkthrough of implementing the Raft consensus algorithm — leader election, log replication, durability, fast log backtracking, and the failure modes that taught me what distributed systems actually defend against.