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Public archive of articles in my readlist.
Why two-phase commit fails in production, and how sagas use compensating transactions to build reliable cross-service workflows without distributed locking.
Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for multi-step applications, now supports saga-style rollbacks, allowing developers to specify a compensating action for each step.do().
Event sourcing is cool, until it isn't. Store events, not state but only when it makes sense.
When prompts reach production, “looks good” stops being good enough. Learn about prompt engineering and how to get the most from it.
Learn how Discord scaled its search infrastructure to index trillions of messages and unlock new features.
Database School is the best place to learn, understand, optimize, and confidently use databases.
There are many excellent AI papers and tutorials that explain the attention pattern in Large Language Models. But this essentially simple pattern is often obscured by implementation details and optimizations. In this post I will try to cut to the essentials. In a nutshell, the…
Learn how Free AI Video Upscaler uses WebGPU and WebCodecs to serve 250k MAU with zero server costs.
A complete guide to what quantization is, how it works, and how it's used to compress large language models
Exploring SVG and its visual effects applications
How do you measure retrieval quality for the increasingly complex ecosystem coding agents consume from?
A deep dive into prompt caching - practical tips to improve cache hits and how vLLM's paged attention enables KV-cache reuse across requests via automatic prefix-caching
Building a High-Performance Distributed Search System for 10,000 QPS. During my internship days at cal.com, I discovered a real passion for distributed systems, databases, and learning Golang. The …
Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.