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Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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Re: Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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post #118

Is this the same author that made the talk about PAM recently? I really like his articles.

Thanks!

I'm not a guy, I'd prefer if you used they to refer to me, but she works too.

The PAM one was a really fun talk to write. I need to finish that postmortem on how that talk went wrong.

Re: Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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post #121
post #118

Is this the same author that made the talk about PAM recently? I really like his articles.

Thanks! I'm not a guy, I'd prefer if you used they to refer to me, but she works too. The PAM one was a really fun talk to write. I need to finish that postmortem on how that talk went wrong.

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Re: Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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post #121
post #118

Is this the same author that made the talk about PAM recently? I really like his articles.

Thanks! I'm not a guy, I'd prefer if you used they to refer to me, but she works too. The PAM one was a really fun talk to write. I need to finish that postmortem on how that talk went wrong.

I'm confused about the they pronoun, isn't it plural? This pronoun thing doesn't exist in my native language.

Re: Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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post #121

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Thanks! I'm not a guy, I'd prefer if you used they to refer to me, but she works too. The PAM one was a really fun talk to write. I need to finish that postmortem on how that talk went wrong.

I'm confused about the they pronoun, isn't it plural? This pronoun thing doesn't exist in my native language.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they for more information. It's been around since the 1300's but it's only gone into the mainstream as someone to refer to direct people fairly recently.

Re: Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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I don't think OP was implying that Rust was a requirement, just what was actually used in this case. And, indeed, OP gives some reasons that Rust might be preferable: > And when I say fast, I mean that I have tried so hard to find some static file server that could beat what my site does. I tried really hard. I compared my site to Nginx, openresty, tengine, Apache, Go's standard library, Warp in Rust, Axum in Rust, a…

Rust is preferable in this case since there is no manager shoving more requirements on the project every week. In the real world, use Go, Node, etc.

At the last place I worked, mean time to feature on the Rust codebase was like a week.

Re: Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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post #86

After going to the end of a long post, I'm disappointed to not find any latency or throughput efficiency metrics. Author seems to claim he has a very popular high-traffic blog and it is super fast, faster than all the popular web servers serving static pages. Where's the performance data to prove this? edit: web.dev measure gave this blog post url a performance score of 30/100 which is quite poor.

Author isn't a man ( https://github.com/Xe )

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Re: Serving a high-performance blog solely from memory, using Rust

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post #98

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A website is a social construct because it can only function by the agreement of everyone involved (i.e., we all agree on how to parse HTML). The individual site may be constructed individually ( maybe ) but it can only work if the society of people-who-use-the-internet all agree to follow a series of conventions about how websites work; you can't start using \ instead of \ and expect everything to work as normal, be…

Sure but that's as useful as saying shit is social construct because we as humans decided to name it that. Technically true , practically it's vapid useless speech that doesn't bring anything useful to the discussion aside from person using the term feeling smart

Sounds like waffle
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