This is my about page!
The egineering team at clarisights talks about the strategies and techniques applied for scaling their backend 100X. From indexing and reducing DB ops to memoization and caching - a complete breakdown of the problem and the steps taken to reach the solution.
The egineering team at clarisights describe how they found and eliminated hotspots in their Ruby on Rails code using caching and memoization. A Key challenge faced was the identification of the hotspots in code where the benefits for caching would be maximized.
This is a source code walkthrough of InnerSelf - a tiny view + state management solution using innerHTML and ES6 template literals. InnerSelf to mimic a React+Redux solution in a minimal way, at just 600 bytes minified, ~350 bytes when gzipped.
This is a source code walkthrough of Bubbly-bg - a tiny dependency free library to get beautiful animated bubbly backgrounds for your webpages.
A tour of the many historical implementations of the Unix cat utility. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie began writing Unix on a PDP 7. This was in 1969, before C, so all of the early Unix software was written in PDP 7 assembly. The first implementation of cat is thus in PDP 7 assembly. See how cat evolved from the 1960s PDP implementation to how it is today.