Picking a Cloud-like Dedicated Hosting Provider

The future is here for dedicated hosting! The landscape today looks a lot more like the cloud — APIs, fast provisioning, and no commitments. It is awesome. In this post I explore the new age of dedicated hosting and describe my thought process for picking a provider. My wish list of features grows over the […]

Hacker School Day 40 – Making pstree Faster/Ugly – Globbing

The final optimization for the pstree clone was to replace file globbing with readdir and a custom isInt function.

Hacker School Day 40 – Making pstree Faster/Ugly – Reading Files

I changed from using ioutil’s ReadAll, over to bufio’s ReadFrom, into os.File’s Read for more gross performance gains.

Hacker School Day 40 – Making pstree Faster/Ugly – No Regex

I made my pstree clone faster by swapping the regex with string functions. I dived in kernel code for more ridiculous things.

Hacker School Day 40 – Making pstree Faster/Ugly

I made my pstree clone faster at the sake of readability and it was just as fun as I hoped.