- shopify.engineeringNotes and details
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled
How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.
- blogs.gnome.orgNotes and details
The Future of GNOME Boxes
I have spent the last two years rebuilding GNOME Boxes from the ground up, driven by three main factors. I spoke extensively about this effort in my recent Linux App Summit, GUADEC 2025 and 2026 talks, but today I am excited to share the result for general testing. First, shifting to a Flatpak-first (and only)...
- earendil.comNotes and details
The Session You Cannot Take With You
Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in.
- victoriametrics.comNotes and details
Go 1.27 interactive tour
An interactive tour of what’s new in Go 1.27: every notable language, runtime, and standard library change, with short runnable examples you can edit and run in the browser.
- blog.cloudflare.comNotes and details
Dogfooding at scale: migrating cdnjs to Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
We moved cdnjs, serving 9 billion requests a day, entirely onto Cloudflare's Developer Platform. That means we’re running one of the Internet's busiest open-source CDNs on our own building blocks, and we pushed Workflows and Workers limits higher for everyone.
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Prompt Caching In Agents
How prompt caching shapes the cost, latency, tools, and architecture of coding agents, and what Pi does to keep cache behavior visible.