Recent Readings

A list of articles (and videos!) I’ve read and found interesting.

• Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search
• When Bloom filters don’t bloom
• The Fastest Mutexes
• Optimistic Parallel Order Books
• Durability and the Art of Consensus (Video)
• How we built a general purpose key value store for Facebook with ZippyDB
• The Future of the Web is Distributed
• Deterministic Simulation Testing for Our Entire SaaS
• Is Something Bugging You?
• So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
• The Games People Play With Cash Flow
• Multi-layered Calendars
• Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings
• How to write a good design document
• Introducing Rich-CRDTs
• Look Ma, No Bubbles! Designing a Low-Latency Megakernel for Llama-1B
• Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds
• Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs
• Cognitive load is what matters