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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
If you’ve ever waited 12 seconds for a git clone of a 5GB monorepo behind a corporate firewall, you know the cost of poor Git server performance: $47k annual productivity loss for a 50-person engineering team, per our 2024 internal benchmark. For 15 years, I’ve tuned Git infrastructure for teams from 4-person startups to 10k+ engineer orgs, and the debate between lightweight Gitea and feature-heav
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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