Bookmarks tagged “tech”
1112 bookmarks tagged “tech”
VALORANT's 128-Tick Servers | Riot Games Technology
Engineer Brent Randall tells the technical story behind VALORANT's search for optimal server performance.
Peeking into VALORANT's Netcode | Riot Games Technology
Take a peek behind the scenes of VALORANT's netcode.
Tracking Engineering Time - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
How do you understand what engineers are doing with that time? How do you know if they’re working on the “right” things? Here’s how I suggest answering those questions.
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder | Irrational Exuberance
One of the most destructive ideas is that you can dig out of a hole by doing what you’re already doing, but doing it harder. This doesn’t work, but it does breed and kill your heroes, and alienate everyone else.
Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics
Deciding what metrics to track and report to stakeholders.
New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King
On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”
15 Lessons From 15 Years of Indie App Development
Exactly 15 years ago on November 9th, 2009, I got my first MacBook and started learning how to build apps. I was fascinated with the idea that you can build something that other people will find useful and enjoy using. I also heard about those "indie developers" on Twitter who
Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?
Announcing the existence of Jam – An robust JS toolchain in Zig
How Large Language Models work
Thanks to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence has now caught the attention of pretty much everyone, but how these models work is still less widely understood.
Serving a billion web requests with boring code - llimllib notes
Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback
Breaking down the feedback cycle process from preparation to follow-up. Approaches I found useful, antipatterns to avoid, and a document structure that can help bring it all to one place. I hope to turn this often-dreaded task into a powerful tool for individual growth and organi
What docs as code really means - passo.uno
I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, the sound and semantics of my new job title gave me some pause and made me think about what it really means to be doing docs-as-code. To say that it’s abo
A Map of Sync
We can categorize sync platforms across nine dimensions: data size, data update rate, the structure of the data, input latency, offline support, numbe...
The Dual Nature of Events in Event-Driven Architecture
Given that events play such a central role in event-driven architecture, there’s an astonishing lack of agreement on what should be contained in an event. This may be rooted in the fact that, depending on your perspective, events fulfill different purposes.
Should JavaScript be split into two languages? New Google-driven proposal divides opinion • DEVCLASS
A Google engineer presented a proposal to the official standardization committee that would split JavaScript into two languages, […]
