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Chapter 15 of Writing for Developers: Getting attention

📺 Great talk on perf golfing data analytics with Rust by Will Crichton at P99 Conf 2024 youtu.be/SVw9nKfVPx4 8x speedup by moving 🐼 code to 🦀 ➡️ 4x by numeric index hash map dtype ➡️ 6x faster by sparse vector ➡️ 3x faster by bitset intersection ➡️ 34x by SIMD optimisation

A look at the engineering challenges and design decisions behind ScyllaDB Rust Driver 1.0: a fully async shard-aware CQL driver using tokio. scylladb.com/2025/03/31/ins…  - API changes for safer serialization and zero-copy deserialization   - Lock-free histograms reducing metrics

Piotr’s picks for writethat.blog last month… - “Our own w̶o̶r̶s̶t̶best customer” by Harrison Brown (Antithesis ) - “War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged” by Jacob Voytko bsky.app/profile/bitlog.com (Client/Server) - “Faster interpreters in Go: catching up with C++” by Vicent Martí (PlanetScale)

We interrupt our steady flow of #bugbash photos to bring you this important announcement. Congratulations Harrison!

Next up in our tech blogger spotlight project: philosopher-turned-technologist Matt Butcher (Matt Butcher @FermyonTech) on blogging as a unique way of sharing knowledge 'in real time' as we learn writethatblog.substack.com/p/matt-butcher…

Nice blog post on why JioCinema preferred ScyllaDB Bloom Filters to Redis or similar in-memory ones for implementing personalization use cases .. link: 👇

I've added on my website a section on my personal book recommendations: teivah.dev/books/

Migrating a #Cassandra cluster to a #ScyllaDB cluster. How can you develop a strategy that avoids challenges and constraints? Expedia Group's Jean Carlo explains how they moved over 50 tables and thousands of persistent connections without downtime. ow.ly/uMkg50Tl2Ph

Next up in our tech blogger spotlight project: a peek at what’s behind fasterthanlime's hot — and hilarious — takes on Rust, Linux, Go… writethatblog.substack.com/p/fasterthanli…

Piotr’s latest picks for writethat.blog… - Differential coverage for debugging - Russ Cox - How a 20-year-old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced… - Silent - Things Zig comptime won’t do - matklad - Concurrency in Haskell: fast, simple, correct - Matt Kline -

Who wants to present at P99 CONF this year? 👀 p99conf.io/2025/05/05/cal…

This was a really nice conversation on tech blogging, covering topics like: - Writing in English when it’s not your native language - Using AI to review your writing - Writing about niche topics vs popular ones - Increasing the chance that your blog posts are actually read -

A peek into Glauber Costa's (Glauber Costa) path from reluctant writer to writing-obsessed co-founder -- and his writing tips for others writethatblog.substack.com/p/glauber-cost…

I'm on Chapter 3 of an excellent train read, thanks to Cynthia Dunlop - "Writing for Developers" by Cynthia Dunlop and Piotr Sarna. The language is simple, the content is appealing and it's the motivation we as developers have been missing so long to put our work out there. 📚 ✍️

Piotr’s latest picks for writethat.blog… - We rewrote large parts of our API in Go using AI - v, Turso - Reservoir sampling - Sam Rose - End the obsession with servers - Matt Butcher @FermyonTech, Fermyon - The DuckLake manifesto: SQL as a lakehouse format