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Semantic Deduplication with OpenAI Embeddings and pgvector
Applications that process large amounts of text often run into duplicate content. While exact duplicates are easy to detect using hashes…
Jun 30, 2026Ben Meehan0 views
How Kafka Achieves High Performance Even on Hard Disks
Disk-based design, when done right, can sometimes outperform memory-first systems.
Apr 24, 2026Ben Meehan3 views
Golang Crash Course Part 10 — Observability and Distributed Tracing
When you run a backend service locally, debugging is easy. You can print logs, step through the code with a debugger, and see exactly what…
Mar 6, 2026Ben Meehan2 views
Comparision Timing Attacks: Common Pitfalls and Prevention
Timing attacks are a class of side-channel attacks where an attacker learns sensitive information by measuring how long an operation takes…
Jan 9, 2026Ben Meehan2 views
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