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Systems & infrastructure Interactive essay
Understanding load balancing
How a request finds its way to the right server. A practical explanation, with a few things to try along the way.
Learning in public
Becoming an
AI / ML engineer.
I'm a senior software engineer learning to build models from scratch. I'm documenting the experiments and mistakes along the way, with a goal of training my own TypeScript language model from scratch.
Tokenisation isn't lexing
Why building a TypeScript language model made me rethink a familiar compiler concept.
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Distributed systems
Why CAP Theorem is still important
CAP Theorem is still important in distributed systems, but I think we often talk about it in the wrong way.
Short note
In the margins
The trade-offs are still there
A cache is you deciding that stale data is okay for a bit. A queue is you deciding that work can happen later, and maybe more than once.
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Building things
It's time to say goodbye to Errgent
I'm sunsetting Errgent and moving on to something new. Here's why.