Thought - Why Banks Can't "Just Rewrite" COBOL in Java/Python/Go?
This is technical debt. We are going to rewrite the Core Ledger in Java microservices. We will be cloud-native
Thought - Why Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) makes sense for AI Code Migration
Large Language Models are probabilistic text generators. They are not compilers. They do not possess an underlying, deterministic model of the code they are ingesting.
Deep Dive - How Kafka hit 1 Million write per second on a $40 HDD
Not NVMe. Not even SATA SSDs. Actual magnetic platters with mechanical arms. The kind of physical, spinning rust drives you can buy for $40 at Amazon.
Report - How Andres Freund saves the Internet
The backdoor had been planted over 2.5 years by a nation-state actor who earned the trust of the maintainer, contributed legitimate code, and then injected malware into the build process itself.
Deep Dive - What it actually cost to Scale to 1 Million Requests per Second
1,000,000 Requests Per Second (RPS) on a single instance. The result? We hit it. But the bottleneck wasn’t the code logic. It wasn’t the database. It was the AWS billing department.
Thought - How Atom built its own Assassin?
They built a runtime that allowed developers to create desktop applications using the web stack (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). They called it Atom Shell (Electron).