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You don't understand a system until you've rebuilt it

Dev.to · Valentyn Kit 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

You don't understand a system until you've rebuilt it

Using a system teaches its interface and reading its source teaches its mechanics. Only rebuilding a worse version teaches the constraints, which is where under

Rebuilding my C Redis clone in Rust taught me more Rust than any tutorial

Dev.to · Valentyn Kit 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Rebuilding my C Redis clone in Rust taught me more Rust than any tutorial

I built a small Redis clone in C: a RESP parser, a command table, an append-only file for...

Adding io::ErrorKind::TooManyOpenFiles to Rust

Dev.to · Valentyn Kit 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Adding io::ErrorKind::TooManyOpenFiles to Rust

This is my second merged contribution to rust-lang, and like the first it lives in the low-level I/O...

Framework knowledge evaporates. Low-level knowledge compounds.

Dev.to · Valentyn Kit 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Framework knowledge evaporates. Low-level knowledge compounds.

I learned async three times before it stuck. C# Tasks. Go goroutines. Rust tokio. Each time I was...