Colin Breck
blog.colinbreck.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
Colin Breck writes about distributed systems, observability, Rust memory safety, WebAssembly, technical writing, and engineering career tracks.
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- 1When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter4 people · 10 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 2Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems2 people · 243 points · first shared 2024 · 47 comments on HN
- 3Administrivia: Reconsidering the Engineering and Management Tracks2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 4Making Unsafe Rust a Little Safer: Find Memory Errors in Prod with GWP-ASan2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 5Techniques for Improving Your Technical Writing2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Why am I excited about WebAssembly?1 people · 170 points · first shared 2022 · 201 comments on HN
- 7Observations on Observability1 people · 57 points · first shared 2019 · 4 comments on HN
- 8Making unsafe Rust a little safer1 people · 38 points · first shared 2024 · 10 comments on HN
- 9From a Time-Series Database to a Key Operational Technology for the Enterprise1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10SARS-CoV-2 and the Future of Work1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 11Operational Benefits of Databases Built on Object Storage1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12Calling Blocking Code: There Is No Free Lunch1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13Be More Productive by Not Finishing Your Work1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 14Is the Scientific Method Valuable in Engineering?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
- 15Akka Streams: A Motivating Example1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
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