Linux kernel source tree
This isn't an anti-Go post. Go is a great language. This is about what I want to understand. I just finished building an L7 HTTP load balancer in Go. It accepts connections. It parses HTTP headers. It forwards requests to backend servers using round-robin. It handles concurrent connections with goroutines. It has health checks. It works. And somewhere in the middle of it working, I realized I didn
For years, I called myself a web designer. Then a developer. Then a digital consultant. None of those titles ever felt quite right. Because clients weren't just asking me to build things. They were asking me to solve problems. Slow sites, broken checkouts, confusing navigation, teams that couldn't figure out how to update their own content. That's when I realized what a technology solutions profes
Most developers use malloc without thinking much about what happens underneath. This project is an attempt to explore that layer by building a memory allocator from scratch in C. The allocator implements malloc, free, calloc, and realloc without relying on libc’s heap functions. It focuses on: Thread safety Per-thread caching (tcache) Efficient free block management using bins mmap-based memory g
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