The code compiles. All the tests pass. The staging environment is healthy. Yet once per day a few servers in the production fleet mysteriously observe a crash with an error message that makes no sense – unreachable code has been reached, we have taken 9 items out of a collection that can only hold 8, or similar. Welcome to the world of rolling your own synchronization primitives.
Optimizing algorithms can be demanding work, requiring a fine-grained understanding of what the processor is doing, involving many repeated measurement and adjustment iterations, depending on a theoretical understanding of computer science principles and mathematics, requiring specialized tooling and the knowledge of how to use it. This article is about something completely different. We will take … Continue reading Structural changes for +48-89% throughput in a Rust web service
Sander Saares 