Simon Eskildsen - Sirupsen
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Personal website and blog of Simon Hørup Eskildsen about napkin math, computers, books, ideas, and whatever else interests me.
A newsletter about using napkin math and first-principle thinking to estimate systems performance fast, and without writing any code! However, on a good day posts will include code to test whether the napkin math lines up with reality. If it doesn’t, it’s the more cause for an interesting post. What is the expected throughput of a single-threaded, in-memory data-store like Redis? — Issue 4 Is fsyncs per seconds and transactions per second for MySQL always the same? — Issue 10 What do you expect the response time for a query that visits 50 database pages with a 80% page cache hit rate to…
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