In this post, CrowdStrike's Engineering team walks through one possible way of adapting a library to handle OOM events without aborting the process. (more…)

Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust... (more…)

Welcome to the fifteenth post in my long-running “How to speed up the Rust compiler” series, and the first in 2023. (more…)

In my last blog post, I wrote about learning Rust and implementing the RaptorQ (RFC6330) fountain code. I only optimized the library for handling small message sizes, since it was mainly a project to help me learn Rust. However, since releasing it, a numb... (more…)

During an ongoing argument in a chatroom between some folks about how “zomg systemd is ruining everything”, I decided to look at some init system history. I learned a cool tidbit of information from a HN comment1: apparently systemd’s design was inspired ... (more…)