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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Most-shared posts

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    When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter
    4 people · 10 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
  2. 2
    Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems
    2 people · 243 points · first shared 2024 · 47 comments on HN
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    Techniques for Improving Your Technical Writing
    2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
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    Why am I excited about WebAssembly?
    1 people · 170 points · first shared 2022 · 201 comments on HN
  7. 7
    Observations on Observability
    1 people · 57 points · first shared 2019 · 4 comments on HN
  8. 8
    Making unsafe Rust a little safer
    1 people · 38 points · first shared 2024 · 10 comments on HN
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    SARS-CoV-2 and the Future of Work
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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    Calling Blocking Code: There Is No Free Lunch
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
  13. 13
    Be More Productive by Not Finishing Your Work
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
  14. 14
    Is the Scientific Method Valuable in Engineering?
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
  15. 15
    Akka Streams: A Motivating Example
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN

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