Arc Notes Weekly #46: Valuate

This week, we'll be discussing HTTP/3 impact on network latency, migrating traffic at scale, and when do you really start needing indexes?

This week, we'll be discussing HTTP/3 impact on network latency, migrating traffic at scale, and when do you really start needing indexes?

Enjoy this week's round-up!

— Mahdi Yusuf (@myusuf3)

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Articles

You Don’t Always Need Indexes

Interesting post on when you actually need to start using indexes and when scanning is potentially faster. That point maybe farther along than you might think. 

How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? | Piotr Kołaczkowski

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2

I would recommend reading both posts in the series. 

Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search

Interesting finding that with HTTP/3 that delays only impacted that specific stream

Is 20M of rows still a valid soft limit of MySQL table in 2023?

The answer is a simple no. Blog post explores answering it in detail. 

Projects

GitHub - binwiederhier/ntfy: Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST

GitHub - geohot/tinygrad: You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad! ❤️

❤️ 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

MotherDuck: The Simple Joys of Scaling Up

Scale up, its easy.