What every systems programmer should know about concurrency—a very dense but impactful read. Things like lock free and wait free synchronisation techniques will stop seeming like black box if you understand this. https://t.co/XB0B2603O8

Our Goals

We made it lightweight and kept the efficiency in mind:

• Self-contained
  
  We ship a single dependency-free binary that runs on all Linux distributions


• Fast to deploy, safe to operate
  
  We are sysadmins, we know the value of operator-friendly software


• Deploy everywhere on every machine
  
  We do not have a dedicated backbone, and neither do you,
  
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