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PagerDuty makes softwate to do on-call, mean they have to think deeply about incident response. They shares their internal process and from what I gather, these are the real practice they really doing now.

Radix tree is commonly used in HTTP routing. They are very efficient to be used when the data you store may share a commont prefix such as HTTP route, IP. Armon, CTO of Hashicorpt, wrote about readix tress transaction and memdb

This installment is about a single text message: how it was typed, stored, sent, received, and displayed.

Database is consider a blackbox to many dev, especially with the rise of hosted service like RDS. Even If you are a MySQL user you should still read this to gain some internal aspects of a database.

We linked to this series a few time in past. Basically the author is building an OS in Rust. This post introduces paging, a very common memory management scheme that we will also use for our operating system. It explains why memory isolation is needed, how segmentation works, what virtual memory is, and how paging solves memory fragmentation issues.

A senior Alibaba technical expert introduces the algorithms that overcome limits proposed in the CAP theorem

Discuss a couple of novel methods for traversing trees. The threaded tree offers amortized constant access to the successor of a tree-node. The link-inversion traversal offers a stackless traversal of binary trees.

You can use emoji (and other graphical unicode characters) in URLs. What if we dynamically change URL with emoji(without reloading the page) to create cool effect. You may never used this in real life but it’s super fun to read this post.

An attempt to add some new value to generics and variance. Code example is Java based, but it’s can applied to similar language such as TypeScript. You will understand how generic works under the hood

RocksDB are being used in many application in place of SQLite, or as a storage engine to build some abstraction on top of it. It’s being use to replace for MySQL storage engine, used in Kafka, in Queue System. This post CockrachLab shares why the rich feature sets of RocksDB help them build CockroachDB.