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The Day the Treasure Hunt Engine Buried Itself Alive

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our first production spike came during a Black Friday weekend when the hunt feed exceeded 180k concurrent sessions. The Rails process memory ballooned to 4.2 GB, the P99 latency for /hunt/start hit 5.2 seconds, and the New Relic trace showed 72 % of that time...

May 26, 2026 · 4 min read

Programming

Veltrix Was Killing Us With YAML

The Problem We Were Actually Solving The real pain wasnt disk size; it was cognitive load on level designers. Every hunt lived in a separate fork of the same monorepo, diffing 14 kB YAMLs was misery, and once the file exceeded 100 kB we started getting partial-checkout timeouts in CI because Git...

May 26, 2026 · 5 min read

Networking & IT Support

Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing

Chinese tech biz shows off clever workaround for its process node gap, but it isn't catching up with Intel and TSMC

May 26, 2026 · 1 min read

Networking & IT Support

Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right

Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot

May 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Networking & IT Support

UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill

Sizewell C could add £19 to yearly bills, spending watchdog says, but private investor may fail to keep costs down

May 22, 2026 · 1 min read

Networking & IT Support

Alibaba just admitted it’s struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops

Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes

May 22, 2026 · 1 min read