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1 day agoStragglers, Not Failures: How Adaptive Hedged Requests Reduce p99 Latency by 74 Percent
Stragglers drive p99 latency in fan-out systems, and retries worsen them by adding load to already-slow backends.
I've built a number of demos already using Bluesky's APIs, and for the most part, they're easy to use and "just work" - which is all you want from an API. That was my expectation going into this little demo, but what I was really surprised by was the fact that everything I needed to do could be done without any authentication at all. I didn't need oAuth, I didn't need an API key, I just hit public endpoints and everything just worked.
The TypeScript team released an early preview of TypeScript 6. This release is mainly about internal changes preparing for the future Go-based compiler planned for TypeScript 7. Large monorepos could see dramatic speed improvements once the Go compiler lands.