TIL: DNS Performance Testing and Pi-hole with Unbound

Today I learned about DNS performance testing tools and troubleshooting Pi-hole performance issues with Unbound recursive DNS server.

June 2, 2021 · 1 min

TIL: CRDTs, Extreme HTTP Performance, and BYTEPATH Game

Today I learned about CRDTs for distributed systems, extreme HTTP performance tuning achieving 1.2M API requests/second, and BYTEPATH - a replayable arcade shooter game.

May 25, 2021 · 1 min

TIL: Siege Load Testing and Awesome FastAPI Resources

Today I learned about Siege for load testing and benchmarking web applications, plus discovered a curated collection of FastAPI resources and tools.

May 8, 2021 · 1 min

TIL: The Little Book of Rust Macros and Rust Performance Book

Today I learned about two essential Rust resources: a comprehensive guide to Rust macros and a detailed book on Rust performance optimization techniques.

April 25, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Modern Rust CLI Tools - System Monitoring, HTTP Requests, and DNS

Today I discovered five excellent Rust-based CLI tools: bottom, dust, procs for system monitoring, xh for HTTP requests, and nip.io for wildcard DNS resolution.

March 25, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Python Performance, REST API Design, Rich Terminal Trees, and Python Launcher

Today I learned about achieving 12 requests per second in Python, designing beautiful REST APIs, rendering tree views with Rich, and a Rust-based Python launcher for version management.

February 23, 2021 · 6 min

TIL: Redis Network Model and Internal Architecture

Today I learned about Redis's sophisticated network model, event-driven architecture, and internal implementation details that make it one of the fastest in-memory data stores.

February 20, 2021 · 6 min

TIL: Python Performance Optimization and Advanced Profiling

Today I learned about advanced Python performance optimization techniques, modern profiling tools, and practical strategies for identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

September 9, 2020 · 16 min

TIL: James Powell's Fast Python Techniques and Scalene Performance Profiler

Today I learned about advanced Python optimization techniques from James Powell's 'Fast and Furious Python' talk and discovered Scalene, a high-performance CPU and memory profiler for Python.

September 9, 2020 · 7 min

TIL: ReactJS Hooks, Regex Tools, and Pandas Performance

TIL 2020-09-03 ReactJS docs with hooks - Converting React class components to use hooks for better code organization. Regex101 - Online regex tester and debugger with explanations. Regexr - Interactive regular expression tool for learning and testing. Pandas Performance Tip - It’s much faster to use Pandas’ filters with the & and | operators than combining conditions with zip. Use intermediate dataframes and multiple .loc calls instead of zip with any or all. ...

September 3, 2020 · 1 min