writing
infrastructure, security, and the occasional rabbit hole.
A historical 16.8M RPS loopback peak on M4 Pro, plus a verified 1.42M RPS median on a $4, four-vCPU Linux VPS. Workloads, limitations, and raw results.
fast polynomial evaluation, from silicon to markets.
how storage keeps its promises.
what happens when distributed nodes lie.
how machines agree.
why working code breaks on different cpus.
one abstraction behind storage and streaming.
why network latency gets weird.