Senior software engineer writing about backend systems, databases, Zig, and cloud infrastructure.https://barddoo.comhttps://barddoo.com/posts/asyncawait-back-in-zighttps://barddoo.com/posts/asyncawait-back-in-zigWhat changed, why it matters, and how to use the new APIhttps://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-1https://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-1Lessons on Performance Optimizations in a Systems Programming Languagehttps://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-2https://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-2Customizing the Hash Table for Caching Workloadhttps://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-3https://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-3Implementing RDB Persistence Using Zig's New IO Interfacehttps://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-4https://barddoo.com/posts/building-redis-clone-zig-part-4Zedis Benchmark: Reaching 95% Performance of Redis in Zighttps://barddoo.com/posts/learning-postgres-as-a-zig-developerhttps://barddoo.com/posts/learning-postgres-as-a-zig-developerPart one of a series on learning Postgres from the inside: building extensions in Zig with pgzx, and the map of primitives I drew along the wayhttps://barddoo.com/posts/on-a-new-internethttps://barddoo.com/posts/on-a-new-internetand how we're trappedhttps://barddoo.com/posts/software-architecture-an-unorthodox-approachhttps://barddoo.com/posts/software-architecture-an-unorthodox-approachThe case for boring infrastructure in a world that sold you complexityhttps://barddoo.com/posts/what-i-ve-been-up-to-shared-nothing-architecturehttps://barddoo.com/posts/what-i-ve-been-up-to-shared-nothing-architectureFrom lock-free Redis to disk-based B+ trees: lessons in database optimization complexity