Cynthia Dunlop
@c_a_dunlop
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@scylladb | #P99CONF | Writing for Developers: Blogs that Get Read" (https://t.co/BiDg9UfnOF) | DB Performance at Scale
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined July 2008
📢The book that @sarna_dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published! And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill and an afterword by @shanselman. Details and Amazon/@ManningBooks links at
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Our latest tech blogger interview features “long-time performance geek” @TanelPoder. He just hit 18 years of blogging, and that deep experience really comes across in his thoughtful responses.
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Piotr’s latest picks for .- How to store Go pointers from assembly: @trascendentale .- Homomorphically encrypting CRDTs: Jake Lazaroff.- jemalloc postmortem: Jason Evans.- Fuzzer blind spots (meet Jepsen!): djb (@TigerBeetleDB ).- How we decreased GitLab
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RT @ordepdev: I’ve been writing again, thanks to Writing for Developers (@sarna_dev @c_a_dunlop) and @eatonphil’s book club. It pushed me….
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RT @techleadjournal: In the new Tech Lead Journal episode, @sarna_dev, author of "Writing for Developers," shows you how to create content….
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RT @techleadjournal: "You're not writing enough." ✍️. New on Tech Lead Journal, author of "Writing for Developers" Piotr Sarna (@sarna_dev)….
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RT @techleadjournal: 🔴 WE ARE LIVE! 🔴. As a developer, are you writing enough?. Join me and Piotr Sarna (@sarna_dev), author of "Writing fo….
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RT @ScyllaDB: ScyllaDB X Cloud is here! With architectural enhancements for greater flexibility and lower cost, it is designed to support v….
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RT @sdtimes: ScyllaDB X Cloud can scale up or down within a matter of minutes to meet actual usage, eliminating the need to overprovision f….
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.@shanselman chats with @poppastring about blogging for developers. Really, what else do we need to say? Just read/listen.
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RT @ManningBooks: Thinking about writing but not sure you should?. @sarna_dev, co-author of Writing for Developers, shares with @glcst how….
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This is a really nice conversation on the reality of technical blogging – from the perspective of an engineer (@sarna_dev ) and co-founder (@glcst ) who were both forced into writing, but grew to love it.
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Piotr’s latest picks for .- We rewrote large parts of our API in Go using AI - @iavins, @tursodatabase .- Reservoir sampling - @samwhoo .- End the obsession with servers - @technosophos, @fermyontech . - The DuckLake manifesto: SQL as a lakehouse format
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RT @abhicantdraw: I'm on Chapter 3 of an excellent train read, thanks to @c_a_dunlop - "Writing for Developers" by Cynthia Dunlop and Piotr….
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A peek into Glauber Costa's (@glcst) path from reluctant writer to writing-obsessed co-founder -- and his writing tips for others
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This was a really nice conversation on tech blogging, covering topics like:.- Writing in English when it’s not your native language.- Using AI to review your writing.- Writing about niche topics vs popular ones.- Increasing the chance that your blog posts are actually read.-
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Piotr’s latest picks for .- Differential coverage for debugging - @_rsc .- How a 20-year-old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced… - @__silent_ .- Things Zig comptime won’t do - matklad.- Concurrency in Haskell: fast, simple, correct - @CompareAndSwap .-
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