Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks. The underlying research claims to improve on the classic approach pioneered by Dijkstra that is taught in most … Read more
What is SCTP? SCTP stands for Stream Control Transmission Protocol. At a basic level, SCTP is designed to be reliable, handle de-duplication of packets, and support packets that may be delivered in order or out of order. Beyond transporting messages, … Read more
December 20, 2025 If you’re looking to contribute to OSS, that’s your cue. Last year, Lemire wrote about an optimized variation of the Euclidean algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two numbers, called binary Euclidean algorithm or Stein’s … Read more
Say you have a Bazel project that builds a web application, and you want to deploy it as a Docker container. The app is already built by Bazel, so you just need to package it into an image with the … Read more
There comes a time in every software engineer’s life when they come up with a new binary-to-decimal floating-point conversion method. I guess my time has come. I just wrote one, mostly over a weekend: https://github.com/vitaut/zmij. It incorporates lessons learned from … Read more
I’m building Outcrop. If your team’s looking for a Confluence alternative, sign up for early access or become an early sponsor. Eight months ago I left my job at Stripe to build a knowledge base. I had sat out the … Read more
Hi Since my previous blog entry about JIT compiler for PostgreSQL, sadly not much happened due to a lack of time, but still some things were done (biggest improvement was the port to ARM64, a few optimizations, implementing more opcodes…). But … Read more
At Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, we’re obsessed with performance. Making large language models faster, cheaper, and more efficient is not a one-trick problem — it requires optimizing along multiple axes. That is the philosophy behind Together Turbo, our suite … Read more
Note SSH3 is probably going to change its name. It is still the SSH Connection Protocol (RFC4254) running on top of HTTP/3 Extended connect, but the required changes are heavy and too distant from the philosophy of popular SSH implementations … Read more
5 years ago, @nikic wrote: I can’t say a 10% improvement is making LLVM fast again, we would need a 10x improvement for it to deserve that label. We recently open-sourced TPDE and our fast LLVM baseline back-end (TPDE-LLVM), which … Read more