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Speculative decoding, the art of guessing well
by astralord
Deep walkthrough of drafting several tokens cheaply and verifying them in one target-model pass, with acceptance and speedup formulas, EAGLE-3, multi-token prediction and diffusion drafters
📰 Good to know, ai, llm, performance
The dirty pages surprise, when a read-only query writes terabytes
by swingbit
A MonetDB count-distinct query saturates an NVMe drive because Linux flushes dirty pages from memory-mapped scratch files, and moving them to tmpfs cuts runtime from 73 minutes to 97 seconds
📰 Good to know, databases, linux, performance
Can we make React faster using the React Compiler?
by Jimmy Miller
In a 2,000-row microbenchmark inlining alone slows rendering from 444 ms to 1,038 ms by removing per-row caches, while adding block DOM updates cuts it to 164 ms
📰 Good to know, react, performance, compiler
How I found a $90,000 remote code execution vulnerability in Google
by Simon Koeck
Google's DevSite reused an OAuth secret from a readable Flask session cookie as the signing key, letting forged sessions reach unsafe pickle deserialization
📰 Good to know, security, bug-bounty
How savepoints throttled our Postgres queue
by Rory Malcolm
Adding workers to a Postgres-based queue made it slower because of per-job SAVEPOINTs, and claiming jobs with a lease fixed it
📰 Good to know, postgres, queues, performance
pg-delta
by Supabase
Supabase's open source schema diff engine that turns two Postgres databases into an ordered migration covering RLS policies, grants and domains
🧰 Tools, postgres, migrations, open-source
once
by alex0ptr
Caches command output so repeated runs return instantly
🧰 Tools, cli, caching
imapkit
by Postal Systems
Embeddable, scriptable IMAP server for testing email clients with in-memory mailboxes and scripted faults, driven from tests or a REST API
🧰 Tools, email, testing
Taming microservice overload, our journey to modular monoliths
by Mario Klaver
Five teams running 90+ microservices at the Port of Rotterdam use DDD and event storming to move back to modular monoliths
📺 Videos, architecture, microservices, devoxx
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