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MySQL Internals for Frappe Developers (conference talk)
Hitting 30
Misinterpreting Uncle Neil, because why not?
Character Development
are ya winnning, son?
Tips for hiring Frappe engineers
Hiring good Frappe engineers is not different from hiring good engineers
Evolving Frappe's ORM for security and flexibility
Story of improving Frappe's ORM over the last four years
Reflections on a decade of "working"
Ramblings about past 10 years of my life and meditations about a possible future
Beating Redis with a dictionary and Redis
It's caches all the way down.
You don't need to contribute to FOSS
Mindless Goodharting of FOSS contributions is corrosive to the entire ecosystem.
Giving back to our (frappe) dependencies
Our small contribution towards sustaining open-source ecosystem
Designing systems for performance (conference talk)
Balancing the costs of count(*) and UX
Just how bad is 'select count(*)' and can we control it?
Microbenchmarks considered useful
Missing the forest for the trees with flamegraphs
Overhead demons can be hiding in plain sight in pretty flame graphs.
Fake Debugging II: The Race Condition Strikes Back
Fake Debugging Considered Harmful.
Is your web service really I/O bound?
Not knowing the true nature of your program can result in months of futile engineering work.
Reliably benchmarking small changes
Modern OSs and hardware make the task of benchmarking small performance gains difficult
The Soul of an Old Machine: revisiting the von Neumann architecture
Revisiting the timeless von Neumann Architecture
On distractions
Blocking them is NOT the solution
Solving concurrency bugs using schedules and imagination
Race conditions are hard, debugging them without right approach is even harder.
If you wish to truly understand Frappe's scheduler, you must first invent the universe
MySQL Internals for Frappe Developers (slide deck)
Reducing memory footprint of Frappe framework
Frappe framework deep dive on BuildWithHussain (video)
How Frappe v14 is blAziNgLy fast (conference talk)
On our glorious past
We were not alone!
Parsing 140 gigabytes of chess games without compute clusters
or why you should learn unix shell tools
How to excel at engineering
Stop writing regexes to lint your code
Taking notes and managing tasks with Vim
My semi-finished VimWiki Frankenstein system
On mastery, cycling and mental health
Story of my transition to Computer Science
How a mediocre internship shaped my life.
Story of my transition to Computer Science