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Read how we migrated our internal API at toptal from a slow REST-based to a performant GraphQL one. It's a tale of incremental changes, monitoring and good old patterns in a new setting. Hope, despair and broken production included ;-).
Re:Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @08:02AM (#20343498)
Shameless plug: understanding regex engine implementation can help with avoiding performance pitfalls: https://medium.com/textmaster-engineering/performance-of-reg...
Re:Performance of Regular Expressions on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:51AM (#18336420)
Not sure what you mean. For detailed complexity analysis, please read this excellent post by Russ Cox: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Don't forget about people who were breakine enigma 'before it was cool', and they succeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_%28cryptography%29, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski.