A hidden bottleneck in LLM proxy architectures is causing 5-13 millisecond blocking delays per request during tokenization, a CPU-bound operation that most systems treat as instantaneous. In event-loo…
The article explains that for decades, operating systems were built using C and C++, which offered high performance but introduced pervasive memory bugs responsible for roughly 70% of critical securit…
The article describes the author's experience building "C-dis," a Redis clone in C, to gain a practical understanding of networking and systems programming. It explains the progression from a simple b…
Tight C is a minimal systems programming language that compiles to C11 and features only 10 keywords, with no garbage collector, type inference, or object-oriented programming. It offers manual memory…
The article argues that C is a fundamentally fixable language, with its main flaws stemming from its outdated standard library rather than the language itself. The author proposes replacing null-termi…