Chill Vic’s Architecture Notes

Understanding Compiler Optimizations Through CPU Architecture, Part 2: Branch Prediction and Rust Compiler Examples

Why Does the Compiler Optimize with Inlining?

Sep 17 • Chill Vic

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How to Survive in this AI Age?

A Software Engineer’s Reflection on Depth, Breadth, and Learning with AI

Sep 15 • Chill Vic

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Understanding Compiler Optimizations Through CPU Architecture, Part 1: Superscalar, OoO, and Store Buffer

Why Doesn't Compiler-Generated Code Look Like What You Wrote?

Sep 13 • Chill Vic

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Another OOM? Which Go Memory Metric Should You Watch?

Understanding Go Memory Metrics and the Memory Allocator

Sep 9 • Chill Vic

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July 2026

TPU Explained from the Ground Up, Part 1: Why Is TPU Computing So Cost-Efficient?

From AllReduce to 3D Torus

Jul 9 • Chill Vic

June 2026

Spark 如何打敗 Hadoop Map Reduce？

解析分散式運算架構 - DAG、shuffle 到 fault tolerance

Jun 4 • Chill Vic

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淺入淺出 TPU (上集）：為何 TPU 運算那麼便宜？

從 AllReduce 到 3D Torus 解析

Jun 2 • Chill Vic

March 2026

How to Build a High-Performance TCP Server Part 2 – Is io_uring Always Faster Than epoll? A Deep Dive into System Internals.

From syscall overhead to shared memory queues: understanding the next evolution of Linux I/O

Mar 27 • Chill Vic

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如何打造高效 TCP Server 下集 - io_uring：為什麼 epoll 還不夠快？

從 syscall 開銷到 shared memory queue，理解 Linux I/O 的下一個演進

Mar 26 • Chill Vic

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How to Build a High-Performance TCP Server Part 1 - How Can a Single Server Handle Tens of Thousands of Concurrent Connections?

From the C10K Problem to epoll: A Deep Dive into the Performance Secrets of Nginx, Redis, and Rust Tokio

Mar 24 • Chill Vic

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如何打造高效 TCP Server 上集 - 單台 Server 如何同時處理上萬連線？

從 C10K 問題到 epoll，深入 Nginx、Redis 與 Rust Tokio 的高效能秘密

Mar 24 • Chill Vic

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February 2026

How to ACE the "Design a Rate Limiter" system design interview.

Rate Limiter Algorithm Explanation and Use Case Analysis

Feb 22 • Chill Vic

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