What Becomes Expensive When Code Becomes Cheap
The inversion of Linus Torvalds’ famous dictum has been circulating for months now. “Code is cheap. Show me the talk.” It’s a clever rhetorical move, suggest...
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TikTok’s payment service struggled at 100,000 queries per second until engineers rewrote critical APIs in Rust
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