VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Perforator - A cluster-wide continuous profiling tool designed for large data centers

   2025-06-09
   performance/profiling programming/c programming/c++ programming/python

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   • Perforator Documentation
   • Optimizing Native Applications with Perforator
   • Yandex’s High-Performance Profiler Is Now Open Source
   • Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
2. PgAssistant - Understand and optimize PostgreSQL database performance

   2025-05-10
   database/postgresql performance programming/javascript programming/python

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3. git-maintenance - Run tasks to optimize Git repository data

   2025-02-25
   schedule/cron source-code-management/git

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   • Git Internals - Maintenance and Data Recovery
4. AFL++ - American Fuzzy Lop Fuzzing Framework

   2025-02-15
   compiler/llvm genetic-algorithm programming/c++ programming/fuzzing programming/rust research security virtualization/qemu

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   • AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
   • AFLplusplus/LibAFL - A collection of reusable pieces of fuzzers
   • rc0r/afl-utils - Utilities for automated crash sample processing/analysis, job management and corpus optimization
   • 0xricksanchez/AFL_Runner - Scaling best-practice AFLPlusPlus fuzzing campaigns made easy
   • AFL++ Papers
   • Sister Projects
   • The LibAFL Book
   • Fuzzing projects with american fuzzy lop (AFL)
   • afl - american fuzzy lop
5. Kenton' s LAN Party House

   2024-11-28
   diy game/multiplayer game/multiplayer/lan-party house nerd network woodworking

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   • kentonv/lanparty - Netboot a fleet of desktop machines from a single base image

   Previous "version":

   • Kenton's House
   • LAN-Party Optimized House
   • LAN-party house: The Back-story
6. A look at search engines with their own indexes

   2024-11-28
   alternative network/http search-engine search-engine/search-engine-optimization web

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   • Very Alternative Search Engines
   • Neat search engines you may not have heard of
   • Lots of great new search engines popping up that search the rest of the web that Google tends to ignore.
   • How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
7. Could Rotating GIFs Improve Performance?

   2024-11-25
   image/compression image/gif wtf

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   • Designing for Performance - Optimizing Images - GIF
8. My Favorite Tools + Techniques for Procedural Gamedev

   2024-11-22
   game graphics/2d graphics/3d image/texture indie procedural-generation

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   • Implementing Depth Pre-Pass Optimization for Three.JS
9. The Ultimate Guide to Django Performance: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimization - LoadForge Guides

   2024-11-18
   database framework/django network/http performance programming/python storage/cache

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   • Django - Performance and optimization
   • Django - Database access optimization
   • Better living through optimized Django
10. InfluxDB Tech Tips — Optimizing Flux Performance

    2024-06-01
    observability/time-series/influxdb

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    • Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux
    • Top 5 Hurdles for Intermediate Flux Users and Resources for Optimizing Flux
    • Optimize Flux queries
    • Sort and limit data with Flux
11. ComfyUI - A powerful and modular stable diffusion GUI with a graph/nodes interface

    2023-09-07
    image neural-network programming/python

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    • evanoberholster/imagemeta#56 - Interesting work
    • soypat/exif - Image file format tools optimized for large image files using lazy loading
12. imagemeta - Image Metadata (Exif and XMP) extraction for JPEG, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF and Camera Raw

    2023-09-07
    image image/exif image/jpeg programming/go

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    • evanoberholster/imagemeta#56 - Interesting work
    • soypat/exif - Image file format tools optimized for large image files using lazy loading
13. Create an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL

    2023-07-14
    database/postgresql programming/sql search-engine text

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    • Postgres Full Text Search vs the rest (MeiliSearch, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, SQlite FTS, Typesense)
    • Optimizing Full Text Search with Postgres tsvector Columns and Triggers
    • Word separators for Postgres full text search with Rails
    • Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search With Golang
    • PostgreSQL: Full Text Search
    • PostgreSQL: Preferred Index Types for Text Search
14. Social Media Analytics & Tracking Query Parameters

    2023-06-11
    internet/analytics internet/browser network/url privacy search-engine/search-engine-optimization

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    • UTM Parameters
    • Google Ads - Conversion Tracking
    • Websites use URLs to track you. Here’s how to stop them.
    • Firefox’s privacy crusade now targets a key form of tracking
    • ClearURLs - An addon to remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy
    • iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on
15. My Current Pick of Rust Performance Optimization Tools

    2022-12-17
    performance performance/benchmark performance/profiling programming/rust

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    • Rust Performance 101 in 5 Minutes
    • https://www.jibbow.com/posts/criterion-flamegraphs/
    • https://www.notamonadtutorial.com/benchmarking-and-analyzing-rust-performance-with-criterion-and-iai/
    • https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs
    • https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs/issues/97 - Compare memory usage
    • https://github.com/bheisler/iai
    • https://github.com/tikv/pprof-rs
    • https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack
16. HyperLogLog - Approximate the number of distinct elements in a set

    2022-12-14
    algorithm database/postgresql database/redis

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    • HyperLogLog: the analysis of a near-optimal cardinality estimation algorithm (PDF)
    • HyperLogLog in Practice: Algorithmic Engineering of a State of The Art Cardinality Estimation Algorithm
    • https://agkn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyperloglog-cornerstone-of-a-big-data-infrastructure/
    • Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/21wshj/redis_new_data_structure_the_hyperloglog/
    • https://redis.uptrace.dev/guide/go-redis-hll.html
    • https://towardsdatascience.com/hyperloglog-a-simple-but-powerful-algorithm-for-data-scientists-aed50fe47869
    • https://odino.org/my-favorite-data-structure-hyperloglog/
    • http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinality-Estimation
    • https://supabase.com/blog/seen-by-in-postgresql
    • https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/12/22/distributed-count-vs-hyperloglog/
17. Scaling productivity on microservices at Lyft

    2022-03-23
    continuous-integration envoy microservice network/http programming team

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    • Part 1 - History of development and test environments
    • Part 2 - Optimizing for fast local development
    • Part 3 - Extending our Envoy mesh with staging overrides
    • Part 4 - Gating Deploys with Automated Acceptance Tests
18. Automating image optimization  |  Web Fundamentals  |  Google Developers

    2020-02-13
    command-line image image/gif image/jpeg image/png image/svg performance programming/script video web

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    • https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg
    • https://github.com/kornelski/pngquant
    • https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim
    • https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin
    • https://jeremy.codes/blog/bulk-image-optimization-in-bash/
    • https://jeremy.codes/blog/faster-bulk-image-optimization-in-bash/
    • https://rigor.com/blog/optimizing-animated-gifs-with-html5-video
    • https://github.com/svg/svgo
    • https://github.com/jakearchibald/svgomg
19. The Mnemosyne Project - Optimized Flashcards and Research Project

    2020-01-13
    knowledge memory programming/html programming/latex question

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    • https://github.com/mnemosyne-proj/mnemosyne
    • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mnemosyne-proj-users
20. go-perfbook: Thoughts on Go performance optimization

    2019-07-29
    performance programming-language programming/go

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