Golang is the lifeblood of thousands of Uber’s back-end services, running on millions of CPU cores. Understanding our CPU bottlenecks is critical, both for reducing service latencies and also for making our compute fleet efficient. The scale at which Uber operates demands in-depth insights into codes and microarchitectural implications.
Source: pprof++: A Go Profiler with Hardware Performance Monitoring, an article by Milind Chabbi.
Actors offer data isolation within a type in such way that the code you write cannot create data races. In other words, thread-safety is built into the type system. Similarly to how mutability is - you simply cannot compile code that mutates immutable data.
Source: Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1, an article by Marin Todorov.
We are happy to announce that the third edition of the Rust language, Rust 2021, is scheduled for release in October. Rust 2021 contains a number of small changes that are nonetheless expected to make a significant improvement to how Rust feels in practice.
Source: The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition, an article by Mara Bos.
With some tweaking Postgres can be a great data warehouse. Here's how to configure it.
Source: Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse, an article by Cedric Dussud.