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A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

Mercury runs ~2M lines ofHaskellin production. They choseTemporalto replace cron and DB-backed state machines. Durable workflows replace brittle coordination. They open-sourced aHaskellSDK forTemporal, wired inOpenTelemetryhooks, and pushed records-of-functions plus domain-error types... read more  

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How To Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter

Zef's AST-walking interpreter posts a 16.6× speed-up. The gains come from surgical changes:64-bit tagged values,AST node & RMW specialization,symbol hash-consing,inline caches, and a shapedobject model. Developers built it onFil-C++and later ported it toYolo-C++. The Yolo build adds ~4x speed, at th.. read more  

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Agentic Coding is a Trap

AI-driven coding agents are the hot new trend, but beware of the trade-offs: increased complexity, skills atrophy, vendor lock-in, and fluctuating costs. Only skilled developers can spot issues in the vast lines of generated code, but paradoxically, AI tools are impacting critical thinking skills ne.. read more  

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How We Reduced Median Memory Estimation Error by 99%, With the Help of AI

The compaction pipeline at Mixpanel ran into memory estimation issues causing OOMKills. By implementing AI-assisted analysis, they were able to reduce median estimation errorby 99%, leading to a significant improvement in memory estimation accuracy. Through thorough analysis and exploration of alter.. read more  

How We Reduced Median Memory Estimation Error by 99%, With the Help of AI
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When upserts don't update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale

The Datadog team introduced a new upsert query to track inactive hosts, but it unexpectedly increased disk writes and WAL syncs due to row locking. By digging into Postgres's Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) and rewriting the query using a Common Table Expression (CTE), they avoided unnecessary overhead an.. read more  

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From Ingress NGINX to Higress: migrating 60+ resources in 30 minutes with AI

With the March 2026 retirement ofIngress NGINX, teams face an urgent compliance mandate. They must replace unpatched controllers. EnterHigress. Built onEnvoyandIstio. It unifies LLM protocols, enforces token rate limits, caches prompts, hostsMCP, and usesxDSfor zero-downtime. AnAI agentpaired withhi.. read more  

From Ingress NGINX to Higress: migrating 60+ resources in 30 minutes with AI
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v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS

Kubernetes v1.36 rolls out Memory QoS (alpha). Opt-inmemory reservation. Tiered protection by QoS class. Kubelet observability metrics. Kernel-version warnings. It separatesthrottlingfromreservation. A feature gate enables throttling. A kubelet config field controls tieredcgroup v2protection:Guarant.. read more  

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