You may be aware of Nix or NixOS. Users love it for being a superior tool for building, deploying, and managing software. Yet, it is generally perceived as notoriously hard to learn.
Source: Nix – taming Unix with functional programming, an article by Valentin Gagarin.
ecently I was asked to look into a case where an identical SQL executed on the same database in two different ways resulted in two quite different latencies: 133ms versus 750ms.
One was acceptable for the client, and the other one wasn't.
Source: Postgres and the curious case of the cursory cursors, an article by Frits Hoogland.
This guide is intended to aid advanced Go users in better understanding their application costs by providing insights into the Go garbage collector. It also provides guidance on how Go users may use these insights to improve their applications' resource utilization. It does not assume any knowledge of garbage collection, but does assume familiarity with the Go programming language.
Source: A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector.