Blog Operations
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Popular Post Ranking on Astro Static Sites with GA4
Implement popular post rankings on Astro static sites using GA4 data. Covers build-time fetching, content integrity checks, and CI fallback strategies.
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18 articles
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch. 2: Scalability Analysis & Modeling
Series: systems-performance-2
Breaking free from 'just add more resources.' From Amdahl's Law, USL, and queuing theory equations to practical capacity planning based on empirical analysis.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch. 13-15: perf, Ftrace, & BPF Tracing
Series: systems-performance-2
Stop tuning by guesswork. A cheat sheet on the three legendary Linux observability tools (perf, Ftrace, BPF) for safe and surgical performance analysis.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch.4: The World of Observability Tools
Series: systems-performance-2
Moving away from guesswork tuning. From crisis tool prep to /proc secrets, kprobes/uprobes, and PMCs—here's how performance tools really work.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch.9: Exploring the Disk Abyss
Series: systems-performance-2
Don't be fooled by IOPS or average latency! A guide to virtual disk traps, bimodal distributions, and hunting mysterious I/O with biostacks.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch.8: File System Deep Dive
Series: systems-performance-2
Is the disk actually slow? A cheat sheet on logical vs physical I/O gap, cache traps, VFS latency, and benchmark pitfalls.
Productivity & Career
9 min read
Learning the HRT of Building a Great Team from 'Team Geek'
A review and takeaways from 'Team Geek'. From HRT principles to dealing with poisonous people, here is the mindset needed to build great engineering teams.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch.10: Network Deep Dive
Series: systems-performance-2
Graduating from 'just run tcpdump'. A cheat sheet covering TTFB traps, TCP backlog drops, TIME_WAIT port exhaustion, and tracking down true network latency.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch.7: Memory Deep Dive
Series: systems-performance-2
Why allocated isn't consumed. A cheat sheet on demand paging, the horrors of swapping, allocators, and profiling real memory performance.
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Productivity & Career
5 min read
Systems Performance Ch.6: CPU Deep Dive
Series: systems-performance-2
What happens behind 100% CPU usage? A skim-friendly cheat sheet covering run queues, context switching, IPC, and profiling tricks.
Productivity & Career
10 min read
Developer's Career Handbook: An Engineer's Survival Guide
Insights from 'The Software Developer's Career Handbook' on shifting to management, mastering meetings, and surviving company crises as an engineer.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch.3: Operating Systems
Series: systems-performance-2
Why are system calls slow? What is %si? A skim-friendly cheat sheet for essential OS and kernel internals to survive performance analysis.