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In the early days of Facebook (back when it was still called thefacebook.com), Mark Zuckerberg hosted it on Harvard's university servers. Back then companies used to buy or rent physical servers to run their software on. The advent of the cloud in the mid-2000s changed the game. The elasticity that this enabled has ...

I recently ported Robocave from F# to Rust as a way to learn and experiment with Rust. The game is a first-person shooter originally written for 7dfps and PROCJAM using a custom F# engine based on Garnet and Veldrid. Rust version web demo In the game, you run around a cave of blocky destructable terrain shooting at ...

One day a coworker mentioned that he was thinking about APIs for distributed compute clusters and I jokingly responded “clearly the ideal API would be simply calling telefork() and your process wakes up on every machine of the cluster with the return value being the instance ID”. I ended up captivated by this idea: ...