Finch

Backpressure in Distributed Systems

distributed systems

Effect of short-wave (6-22 MHz) magnetic fields on sleep quality and melatonin cycle in humans: the Schwarzenburg shut-down study - PubMed

papers psychology science

Engineering Resilience with CFR Monitoring

devops sre

Is Postgres Read Heavy or Write Heavy? (And Why… | Crunchy Data Blog

databases

An MVCC-like columnar table on S3 with constant-time deletes

databases distributed systems

Google Zanzibar

distributed systems security

How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs

databases distributed systems

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate - Aether Mug

psychology science

Garage - An open-source distributed object storage service

devops distributed systems rust

Taking Control: Building Flexible AI Workflows with Elixir’s LangChain Step Mode

ai elixir

Learning Elixir: Binaries and Bitstrings - DEV Community

elixir

wake linux server from sleep on network activity

linux sysadmin

dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py: Lightweight Durable Python Workflows

distributed systems python

Simple or fancy UPSERT in PostgreSQL with Django - Peterbe.com

databases django

Notes on Gitlab’s postgres schema design

databases

Go Assembly Mutation Testing

golang

How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster

math sre

noyaml

devops

Build a Smart Info Station with Nerves, Raspberry Pi & ESP32 E-Ink | Curiosum

electronics elixir

How to interactively debug GitHub Actions with netcat

devops

“defensive programming” (Was: Re: How nice should I be on exit?) - Joe Armstrong email explaining Erlang’s philosophy for error handling.

erlang resilience

Nix pill 19: fundamentals of stdenv - Luca Bruno blog

linux nixos

NixOS server setup in minutes

linux nixos

SPF DKIM Dmarc simplified

sysadmin

Frequent reauth doesn’t make you more secure

security

The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization

ai

You Shall Not Pass: Fine Grained Access Control with Row Level Security

databases security

How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong | Haki Benita

databases django

Lucas Sifoni - Leveraging Elixir’s hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app

elixir

parse don’t validate in C

cs

Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google

control systems resilience

ijsonI

iterative json parsing library for python. good for avoiding memory bloat.

python

msgspec

fast python serialization library.

python

lrstanley/go-ytdlp: yt-dlp cli bindings for Go

golang

Longitudinal relationships between pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types and individuals’ ages

neuroscience papers

webriots/rate: A high-performance rate limiter library for Go applications

golang

Our ISO 27001 Audit Used to Be a Six-Week Fire Drill. Now, It’s a 30-Minute Coffee Break

devops

ISO 27001 Auditable System on a Budget with just 20 Files

devops

Goodbye AWS: How We Kept ISO 27001, Slashed Costs by 90%

devops

Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

algorithms math

Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL

databases

GitHub - arthurcolle/agents.erl: openai agents in erlang

ai elixir

Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?

security

Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory

python

LLM Judges are Unreliable

ai

Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)

distributed systems elixir

[2505.13775] Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

ai papers

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

ai papers

BEAMOps � No More Broken LSPs: Bulletproof Elixir Lexical Setup with Nix

elixir nixos

namespacelabs/breakpoint: Add breakpoints to CI: pause, access the workflow with SSH, debug and resume.

devops