Arc Notes Weekly #36: Sort

This week, we discuss handling asynchronous workloads, system insights that can be gleaned from graph databases, and TimSort has been beaten!

This week, we discuss handling asynchronous workloads, system insights that can be gleaned from graph databases, and TimSort has been beaten!

Enjoy this week's round-up!

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Articles

Asynchronous computing at Meta: Overview and learnings

Updates to the asynchronous computing platform for storage and processing of data. 

Intelligent, automatic restarts for unhealthy Kafka consumers

At Cloudflare, we take steps to ensure we are resilient against failure at all levels of our infrastructure. This includes Kafka, which we use for critical workflows such as sending time-sensitive emails and alerts.

PageRank Algorithm for Graph Databases

Extremely interesting article using Graph databases to determine critical nodes in systems. 

FOSDEM 2023 - Glidesort

Sorting is one of the most common algorithms used in programming, and virtually every standard library contains a routine for it.

Projects

Trigger.dev - Effortless automation built for developers

DriftDB | DriftDB

DriftDB is a real-time data backend that runs on the edge

❤️ The Favourites - this section won't make an appearance every week, will usually be something that was a particularly high point in tech that impacts us all. If you see something worthy of the favourite, tweet at @arcnotes

Play CS 1.6 in the browser at PLAY-CS.COM!

There is lots of nostalgia and new tech in this one!

Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System