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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Great idea. Sounds like a fun weekend project for @sarna.dev ;-)

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 4d

And one by the afterword author, @scott.hanselman.com, with @poppastring.com hanselminutes.com/981/blogging...

Blogging for Developers with Mark Downie

Mark Downie has been blogging about technical topics for years, and also is the primary maintainer of the DasBlog-Core blogging engine. He talks with Scott about writing technical blogs that get read....

hanselminutes.com

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 4d

And speaking of podcasts on tech blogging, here's one by the book's foreword author, @bcantrill.bsky.social oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tec... ...

Oxide and Friends | Technical Blogging

Bryan and Adam were joined by authors of the forthcoming book

oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 4d

New podcast: A fun chat on writing engineering blogs, with @glaubercosta.bsky.social and @sarna.dev

GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 4d

✍️ Writing is an engineering skill.

#GOTOpodcast, @glaubercosta.bsky.social & @sarna.dev
unpack:
💡 Blog post patterns every dev should know
🎯 Depth vs simplicity
🗣️ How introverts can find their writing voice

🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 9d

Also, writethat.blog now has easy access to posts by pattern type in the sidebar, as well as pattern type descriptions. Thanks for the feature request, @mooreds.com. :-)

Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 9d

How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs // Stanislav Kozlovski

Obscure feature + obscure feature + obscure feature = bug // Michael Gibson, @antithesis.com

%CPU utilization is a lie // @brendanlong.bsky.social

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 9d

@sarna.dev's latest picks for writethat.blog

90%// @mitsuhiko.at

Turning billions of strings into integers every second without collisions// @jaz.bsky.social

Eliminating cold starts 2: shard and conquer// Harris Hancock @cloudflare.social

Processes and threads// @benjdd.com, @planetscale.com

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mcyoung 🏳️‍🌈 @mcy.gay · 17d

for the perf freaks out there, I'll be speaking at #p99conf next month on Protobuf optimization. it's a very cursed talk, and it'll be free and online!

come ask me questions about cpu implementation details, perf profiling, and writing really fast parsers :3

title card for "Parsing Protobuf As Fast As Possible" at P99Conf. the dates listed are October 22-23, and it's an online conference. the website is p99conf.io

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 17d

Were you and @gunnarmorling.dev just talking about this? 👀

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 18d

Our #P99CONF speakers are experts in distributed databases, Rust, Wasm, AI/ML, eBPF, Linux kernel, observability, k8s & more. Check out the books written by @chiphuyen.bsky.social, @hillelwayne.com, @dominiktornow.bsky.social, @sarna.dev, and @penberg.org. www.p99conf.io/2025/09/23/b...

#ScyllaDB

Books by P99 CONF Speakers: AI Engineering, Latency, Distribtuted Systems & More

P99 CONF speakers have amassed a rather impressive list of publications, including quite a few books. This blog highlights 8 of them.

www.p99conf.io

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 18d

I recorded my #p99conf talk yesterday, and my speaker swag box just arrived too! Super sweet and thoughtful gift. I already deployed stickers on my laptop :)

Huge thanks to the organizers @scylladb.com @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social for a smooth recording. Can't wait for the conference!

Top: a swag box from P99Conf. Bottom: my laptop stickers.

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 18d

It's a great talk!

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 19d

Ooh, this is a fun read

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 29d

And we just discovered that you discovered it. :-) Hope you're still enjoying it!

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Sep 9

New interview: @aaronfrancis.com on technical blogging. It’s short, sharp, and spot on. No excuses, give it a read. 🙂
writethatblog.substack.com/p/aaron-fran...

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nice list of actionable blog writing takeaways here, courtesy of @twokul.bsky.social 👇

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Sep 8

Neon will be at P99 CONF: "Reworking the Neon IO stack: Rust+tokio+io_uring+O_DIRECT"

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · Sep 4

> At this point it's pretty much muscle memory to include samwho's newest post in the digest.

The plan is working. 🥷

Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Sep 4

@sarna.dev's latest picks for writethat.blog …
- Inside vLLM: anatomy of a high-throughput LLM inference system: Aleksa Gordić
- Big O: @samwho.dev
- Optimizing our way through Metroid: Will Wilson (@antithesis.com)
- Without the futex, it's futile: h4x0r

Screenshot of engineering blog posts featured on writethat.blog in August

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Sep 4

- Inside ClickHouse full-text search: fast, native, and columnar (‪@clickhouse.com)
- We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application: Mitchell Hashimoto
- Zig’s lovely syntax: matklad
- Anubis: Tavis Ormandy

Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Sep 4

@sarna.dev's latest picks for writethat.blog …
- Inside vLLM: anatomy of a high-throughput LLM inference system: Aleksa Gordić
- Big O: @samwho.dev
- Optimizing our way through Metroid: Will Wilson (@antithesis.com)
- Without the futex, it's futile: h4x0r

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have a Steller's Jay call as my wake up alarm. :-) Reminds me of backpacking.

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Aug 29

The lineup *is* great though. Agenda Tetris is happening -- should be announced within a couple weeks.

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just noticed that p99conf registration is open, running at 22nd/23rd of October.

No need to even ask questions about the agenda, just go ahead and register.

P99 CONF Event 2025 – All Things Performance On-Demand

P99 CONF is a cross-industry virtual event for _engineers_ and by engineers, centered around low-latency, high-performance design.

www.p99conf.io

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Aug 26

Also, don't miss P99 CONF, our sister conference. Speaker decks are (mostly) in and it's shaping up quite nicely. www.p99conf.io

P99 CONF Event 2025 – All Things Performance On-Demand

P99 CONF is a cross-industry virtual event for _engineers_ and by engineers, centered around low-latency, high-performance design.

www.p99conf.io

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · Aug 26

Who will be the first to submit a talk? 👀 Bring us your extreme scale engineering feats and your intriguing distributed database projects sessionize.com/monster-scal...

Monster Scale Summit 2026: Call for Speakers

What is Monster SCALE Summit?If you’re working on applications that deliver real-time responses at massive scale, join us for Monster SCALE Summit. It...

sessionize.com

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