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Every performant API eventually runs into the same silent killer: the N+1 query problem. It doesn't....


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Twitter's recommendation algorithm has been open-source since March 2023. I spent four days reading....


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Hi everyone, my name is Greg. I've been working in web development since 2020. A few years ago, I...


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When people say that Ukraine has become a “testing ground” for Western technologies, there is some.....


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One of the biggest challenges in large-scale website crawling isn’t crawling itself. It’s...


We have become far too comfortable with the 8-bit byte. In modern systems, we treat the byte as the...