How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale

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The challenges of rising MTTR — and what to do

Member post by Jake O’Donnell, Logz.io Data volumes are soaring. Environments are increasingly intricate. The risk of applications and systems encountering breakdowns is sky-high, and the mean time to recovery (MTTR) for production incidents is moving in the wrong direction. Disruptions not only jeopardize critical infrastructure but also have a direct impact on the bottom line of organizations. Swift recovery of affected...
The Osborne Effect

Today in 1983, the Osborne Computer Corporation introduced The Osborne Executive portable computer, featuring 128KB RAM, a 7-inch amber monitor, a detachable keyboard, and two 204KB 5.25-inch disk drives. Price: $2,495. Weight: 28lb.The Osborne Executive was the successor to the Osborne 1 which shipped in July 1981, a month before the IBM PC was introduced. 11,000 Osborne 1s were sold...
Redis re-implemented with SQLite

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libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop

libxev is a cross-platform event loop. libxev provides a unified event loop abstraction for non-blocking IO, timers, signals, events, and more that works on macOS, Windows, Linux, and WebAssembly (browser and WASI). It is written in Zig but exports a C-compatible API (which further makes it compatible with any language out there that can communicate with C APIs). Project Status: 🐲 Unstable, alpha-ish quality. The feature...
Mocking the native Node.js Test Runner

Last week, we discussed an overused but applicable pattern: in-memory bus. This time, we’ll continue with the leitmotif and talk about mocking. No, I won’t mock you; I will mock TypeScript code. Node.js in version 18th added its own native Test Runner. Why did they do it? Jest looks like abandonware even after transferring to OpenJs Foundation, issues are not getting...