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Creating a reverse web proxy using BASH in approximately 50 lines of code, with room for improvement.

Improving the responsiveness of OCaml's garbage collector with lower-latency GC techniques.

A blogpost about undocumented performance features for interfacing C with OCaml.

The importance of GADTs for performance improvement

A blogpost about the recent release of a version of open source libraries that made a change to the Async_kernel library by removing its dependency on Core and now depending only on Core_kernel.

The author revisits a blogpost from 7 years ago about centralizing distributed version control, explaining how a centralized repo and continuous integration system were used to ensure clean merges and successful testing.

An explanation of how linked partitioning will replace offset-based pagination in the SoundCloud API

Efficiently training and onboarding new people in a continuous cycle.

This blogpost discusses how SoundCloud implemented Prometheus as their monitoring system to overcome the limitations of their previous set-up and achieve a multi-dimensional data model, operational simplicity, scalable data collection, and a powerful query language.

A case study of how SoundCloud uses Scalding, a data-processing framework

The blogpost discusses the deprecation of XML responses in the SoundCloud API and provides details about the schedule.

Design and implementation of interactive waveform rendering in the rebuild of the SoundCloud iOS application.