Content tagged with "systems" (5)
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- by Raymond Chen
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.
- by Connor Stack
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.
- by Eli Bendersky
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.
- by Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson
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.
- by Charith Amarasinghe
A field report on leaving the cloud for your own racks, where the job resembles construction far more than writing a Terraform file.