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VOIDING WARRANTIES FOR BETTER IOPS

The sticker on your NVMe drive says "Warranty Void if Removed." We remove it anyway. That sticker is a thermal insulator, and in high-performance computing, heat is the enemy of speed.

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Surgery on a Beating Heart

How we migrated 500GB of live production data to NVMe arrays without a single second of downtime.

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The Vercel Tax: Paying for Air

Serverless functions are great until you hit scale. Then you realize you're paying a 500% markup for AWS Lambda wrappers. Here is the math.

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Zero-Copy Networking with io_uring

How we achieved 10gbps throughput on a single core using asynchronous I/O and modern Linux kernel features. Warning: Contains C code.

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Ronin v2.1: The "Kill Switch" Update

We added a panic button for developers. If your API gets DDOS'd, one CLI command instantly severs the connection and rotates your keys.

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Why We Banned Slack

Real-time chat is an interruption factory. We switched to async-only communication and our shipping velocity doubled.

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React is the new jQuery

It was revolutionary in 2013. Now it's 2025. Virtual DOM overhead is real. It's time to move on to signals and fine-grained reactivity.

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Scaling to 10k Nodes on Raspberry Pis

We built a global edge network using consumer hardware just to prove it could be done. Here is the architecture diagram.

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The Myth of "Air-Gapped" Networks

We tried to build a truly offline build server. Then we found out about acoustic cryptanalysis. Here is how we hardened our physical infrastructure.

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Why We Bought 50 Used Mac Minis

AWS Mac instances cost $1/hour. eBay Mac Minis cost $200 once. We built our own CI/CD farm for iOS builds and saved $40k/year.

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Delete Your Backlog

If a ticket has been in Jira for more than 3 months, you aren't going to do it. Delete it. Free your mind. Focus on what matters today.

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