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Understanding the relationship between CPU registers and faster code writing in OCaml.

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.

Guidance on replacing offset-based pagination with linked partitioning in APIs, using next_href to navigate pages and a configurable limit for scalable results, illustrated by the SoundCloud API.

Explains migrating from offset-based pagination to linked partitioning in the SoundCloud API, using linked_partitioning and next_href to paginate through results.

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.

Prometheus: SoundCloud's open-source, Go-based monitoring system that uses a multi-dimensional time series data model with label-based filtering, scalable pull-based collection, and integrated dashboards and alerting for microservice architectures.