Things on the internet I really enjoyed reading

These don't follow any particular category, it's just really good articles by awesome people on the internet. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Database Recovery Demystified: Understanding ARIES from First Principles

Engineering PostgreSQL

Yash Agarwal • yashagw.github.io

Unlocking High-Performance PostgreSQL: Key Memory Optimizations

Engineering Performance PostgreSQL

Stormatics • Stormatics

You don't need Kafka: Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals

Engineering Ruby

Leandro Proença • leandronsp.com • 15 mins read

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Engineering Large Language Models

Anthropic Team • anthropic.com

What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres

Engineering PostgreSQL

Hazel Bachrach • challahscript.com • 15 mins read

Easy to Overlook PostgreSQL Performance Issues in Rails Apps

Engineering Performance PostgreSQL

Paweł Urbanek • pawelurbanek.com • 7 mins read

Debounce vs Throttle: Definitive Visual Guide

Engineering JavaScript

Artem Zakharchenko • kettanaito.com • 6 mins read

Don't Get Eaten

Engineering Culture Startup

svs • The Engineering Org • 9 mins read

How to win at CORS

Engineering

Jake Archibald • jakearchibald.com • 16 mins read

How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

Engineering Performance

Leonardo Creed • Engineer Codex • 4 mins read

Reduce Friction - Ceejbot's notes

Culture Engineering Startup

alazyreader • blog.ceejbot.com • 17 mins read

The Fly Blog: The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird

Engineering JavaScript TypeScript

todsacerdoti • fly.io • 4 mins read

Scaling with common sense

Engineering

Kailash Nadh • zerodha.tech • 16 mins read

Logging at Zerodha

Engineering

Karan Sharma • zerodha.tech • 16 mins read

What to expect from your framework

Engineering JavaScript

Johan Halse • johan.hal.se • 8 mins read

The Market for Lemons

Culture Engineering JavaScript Performance Startup

Alex Russell • infrequently.org • 10 mins read

Building a Startup from Scratch: My Mistakes as CTO

Engineering Startup

Egor Romanov • egor-romanov.medium.com • 12 mins read

Making sense of TypeScript using set theory

Engineering JavaScript TypeScript

Vladimir Klepov • blog.thoughtspile.tech • 11 mins read

For Want of a JOIN

Engineering

Brian Kihoon Lee • moderndescartes.com • 3 mins read

beautiful software

Engineering

beautiful.software • 7 mins read

Taming Names in Software Development

Engineering

Joseph Glass • simplethread.com • 9 mins read