0xKelsey - Hackdot

Building Barista: Postgres, Embeddings, and Jev

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:49PM
from the read.thecoder.cafe dept.

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/barista-1

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F3 Lightning: How Meta Accelerates Ads ML Features to Production at Scale

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:29AM
from the engineering.fb.com dept.

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/11/03/ml-applications/f3-lightning-how-meta-accelerates-ads-ml-features-to-production/

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An alternative to sharding a MongoDB replica set that outgrew its memory

Posted by 0xKelsey on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:30AM
from the percona.com dept.

https://www.percona.com/blog/an-alternative-to-sharding-a-mongodb-replica-set-that-outgrew-its-memory-a-proof-of-concept/

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Benchmarking Vector search in six database engines

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:22PM
from the percona.com dept.

https://www.percona.com/blog/benchmarking-vector-search-in-six-database-engines/

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Catching Bugs Before They Land

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:22PM
from the engineering.fb.com dept.

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/29/security/catching-bugs-before-they-land-jittestings-human-on-the-loop-approach-at-full-scale/

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The Shirky Principle Explained: Why Teams Preserve the Problems They Solve

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:58AM
from the read.thecoder.cafe dept.

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/the-shirky-principle-explained

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Fragments: May 5

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:40PM
from the martinfowler.com dept.

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-05-05.html

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A Browser-Based UI for Deploying MongoDB with Terraform and Ansible

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:40PM
from the percona.com dept.

https://www.percona.com/blog/psmdb-sandbox-a-browser-based-ui-for-deploying-mongodb-with-terraform-and-ansible/

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Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @11:13AM
from the read.thecoder.cafe dept.

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-broke-postgresql

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Systems Thinking Explained

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @12:28PM
from the read.thecoder.cafe dept.

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/systems-thinking

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RAG in Go: A Vulnerability Research Tool

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:08AM
from the ardanlabs.com dept.

https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2026/04/rag-in-go-a-vulnerability-research-tool/

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Ten things not to worry about regarding oncall

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:08AM
from the josvisser.substack.com dept.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/ten-things-not-to-worry-about-regarding

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Approaches to Tenancy in Postgres

Posted by 0xKelsey on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:06PM
from the planetscale.com dept.

https://planetscale.com/blog/approaches-to-tenancy-in-postgres

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Impacts of updates in open-source databases

Posted by 0xKelsey on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:05PM
from the percona.com dept.

https://www.percona.com/blog/impacts-of-updates-in-open-source-databases/

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That Resilience Can't Be Automated

Posted by 0xKelsey on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:08PM
from the uptimelabs.io dept.

https://uptimelabs.io/articles/5-ways-that-resilience-cant-be-automated/

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MariaDB's Snapshot Isolation: A Fix That Breaks More Than It Fixes

Posted by 0xKelsey on Monday April 20, 2026 @05:07PM
from the percona.com dept.

https://www.percona.com/blog/mariadbs-snapshot-isolation-a-fix-that-breaks-more-than-it-fixes/

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Build Your Own Key-Value Storage Engine (Written in Collaboration with ScyllaDB)

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:51PM
from the read.thecoder.cafe dept.

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/build-your-own-kv-engine

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How AI Is Upending Systems Research

Posted by 0xKelsey on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:16AM
from the charap.co dept.

https://charap.co/murat-and-aleksey-read-papers-barbarians-at-the-gate-how-ai-is-upending-systems-research/

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Pinterest Transfers Terabytes of Data with CDC

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:02AM
from the blog.bytebytego.com dept.

https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-pinterest-transfers-hundreds

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Unhappy the team that needs heroes

Posted by 0xKelsey on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:01AM
from the josvisser.substack.com dept.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/unhappy-the-team-that-needs-heroes

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Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): Convergence Without Coordination

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:00AM
from the read.thecoder.cafe dept.

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/crdt

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SymmACP: Extending Zed's ACP to Support Composable Agents

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:41AM
from the smallcultfollowing.com dept.

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/10/08/symmacp/

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Academic Chat with Murat and Aleksey: 5 CS of the Invisible Curriculum

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:40AM
from the charap.co dept.

https://charap.co/academic-chat-with-murat-and-aleksey-5-cs-of-the-invisible-curriculum/

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The Coder Cafe

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday October 09, 2025 @11:55AM
from the thecoder.cafe dept.

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/the-coder-cafe-story

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Achieving relentless Kafka reliability at scale with the Streaming Platform

Posted by 0xKelsey on Thursday May 15, 2025 @04:20AM
from the datadoghq.com dept.

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/streaming-platform-kafka-custom-abstractions/

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Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google

Posted by 0xKelsey on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @05:35AM
from the thecoder.cafe dept.

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/complex-systems

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The Pros and Cons of Lambdalith

Posted by 0xKelsey on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @03:10PM
from the theburningmonk.com dept.

https://theburningmonk.com/2025/03/the-pros-and-cons-of-lambdalith/

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So, I Wrote a Book: The Story Behind 100 Go Mistakes

Posted by 0xKelsey on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:18AM
from the thecoder.cafe dept.

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/100-go-mistakes

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