Posted inPerformance Ruby Software
Ruby and Rails Performance Roundup: The Backlog Edition
Yet again instead of tweets, a blog post. The backlog got out of hand -…
Xfwl4’s Second Preview Release
I’m pleased to announce the second preview release of xfwl4, Xfce’s Wayland compositor, version 4.21.1.…
Posted inapache kafka Karafka karafka framework
Karafka 2.6 and Web UI 1.0: Laying the Groundwork for Kafka Queues
I'm happy to announce that Karafka 2.6 and Karafka Web UI 1.0 have just been…
LLMs and xfwl4
I was planning to write a little about my usage of LLMs while building xfwl4…
Xfwl4’s First Preview Release
I’m pleased to announce the first preview release of xfwl4, Xfce’s Wayland compositor. After close…
Posted inPerformance Ruby Software
Small PRs, big speedups: The Ruby performance work you almost missed
Normally I just fire off a tweet when I spot a nice performance PR landing…
Posted inapache kafka Karafka Performance
One Thread to Poll Them All: How a Single Pipe Made WaterDrop 50% Faster
This is Part 2 of the "Karafka to Async Journey" series. Part 1 covered WaterDrop's…
Claude on Incus – All the autonomy, securely
Here's claude-on-incus (or coi for short) - a tool for running Claude Code freely in…
Shoryuken Has a New Maintainer, and v7.0.0 Is Almost There
After a decade under Pablo Cantero's stewardship, Shoryuken has a new maintainer - me. I'm…
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Ruby Floats: When 2.6x Faster Is Actually Slower (and Then Faster Again)
Update: This article originally concluded that Eisel-Lemire wasn't worth it for Ruby. I was wrong.…