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Simple wrapper over the Protobuf C++ API for converting back and forth between JSON and Protobuf.

RpcExplorer is a curses tool that allows the user to search for service methods defined in protobuf and interactively build and issue requests. I built it a few months ago, and my …

There are two contexts I'd like to consider. a) When COVID first broke out, many companies moved to remote work. If your company did this, how did you measure productivity before &…

In OSDI 2016, Google published a paper describing Slicer, a system to make it easy to build stateful applications by solving the distributed problems associated with sharding appli…

Thank you for replying! I completely agree that people in most companies do not push down P99 enough. I think this is a direct response to the second question, and assumes that peo…

There are two sub-questions here. 1. Is the same timeout T set for every instance of service X making request A to service Z, or is a timeout chosen at runtime? 2. How is the stati…

I think the solution is more cultural than technical. When a company develops a culture that fosters the creation of technical documentation, and encourages employees to document a…

Running on Firefox and `Shift` generates a `^P` character.

Last year, Intel announced that they were deprecating CilkPlus, and would remove it from their development kit in a couple of years. However, no reason was given for the decision. …

The system isn't designed to be very high-throughput, but I do plan to keep hosting on https://hq6.me/u/ . The API is to shorten is simply a POST request to hq6.me/u/ with `fullUrl…

Thank you for the PR! That error was the result of copy-pasting output and typing the command manually.