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How the Operating System Runs Many Tasks on One CPU
Multitasking, context switching, and the scheduler that makes it all work.
Jul 11
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Franco Fernando
16
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When to repeat yourself
When duplicated code is the better tradeoff.
Jul 4
•
Franco Fernando
27
2
2
June 2026
The Training Trap: Underfitting, Overfitting, and How to Escape Them
A practical guide to the most common problems in machine learning training and the techniques to solve them.
Jun 27
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Franco Fernando
10
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Service Mesh vs API Gateway (Part III)
Two patterns that look similar, solve different problems, and work best together.
Jun 20
•
Franco Fernando
12
1
The Depth-First Search Pattern: Exploring Trees and Graphs
How to systematically search through all paths by going as deep as possible before backtracking
Jun 13
•
Franco Fernando
22
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3
What a Service Mesh Gives You (Part II)
The features that make a service mesh worth the trouble.
Jun 6
•
Franco Fernando
13
2
May 2026
Service Mesh: Why and How It Works (Part I)
How a dedicated infrastructure layer can take over the job of managing service-to-service communication.
May 30
•
Franco Fernando
25
3
The Divide and Conquer: Breaking Problems into Smaller Pieces
How to split a problem into independent subproblems, solve each one, and combine the results
May 23
•
Franco Fernando
11
2
Bloom Filters Explained
Fast lookups with a fraction of the memory, when 'probably yes' is good enough
May 16
•
Franco Fernando
24
2
The Ordering Pattern: Generating All Permutations
How to find every possible arrangement of a set of items
May 9
•
Franco Fernando
11
1
How to Stop Failures from Spreading Between Services
Practical patterns to protect your services from failing dependencies and excessive load.
May 2
•
Franco Fernando
23
2
April 2026
How machine learning and optimization work well together
From making predictions to making choices.
Apr 29
•
Franco Fernando
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Tim Varelmann
16
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