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Great article from @ShopifyEng on improving Ruby GC latency. But I feel like as a society maybe we’re spending these cycles in the wrong place? If we’re going to work on Garbage Collection, could we maybe look at some higher value use cases? Like, say the U.S. Supreme Court.

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“Shopify's monolith is deployed approximately every 30 minutes, so aside from weekends, we're pretty much constantly in that “warm-up phase” Shopify Engineering: Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith (2023) shopify.engineering/adventures-in-…

Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim)Tue, 02 May 2023 14:05 +0000

DM of Engineering (@dmofengineering)Tue, 02 May 2023 15:47 +0000

Watching my nephew's 2nd grade concert (in the U.S.) and they started with an announcement about not posting any recordings but because of "respecting copyright" and to be mindful of filming/photos "for other's experience" but like... no mention of the children's privacy??? wat

Attached: 1 image Y'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system. Fer reals.

I support the writers strike

Calvin Wong Tze Loon 黃子倫 🇲🇾 (@ithayla)Tue, 02 May 2023 03:48 +0000