Content tagged with "systems" (5)

If the process is about to exit, the correct garbage collection strategy is to do nothing, because the OS will reclaim everything faster than you ever could.

Build a SQLite clone from scratch in C, and after that you'll never write a SELECT statement without knowing exactly what the machine is doing underneath.

When you set a breakpoint, the debugger literally overwrites your instruction with a trap, and the rest of the trick is just ptrace and knowing when to put the original byte back.

A free book that has you build a working browser in Python, from raw socket to render tree, until no part of the pipeline stays a black box.

A field report on leaving the cloud for your own racks, where the job resembles construction far more than writing a Terraform file.