Technology

When building embedded firmware, optimizing for size (-Os) is crucial, but it can introduce unexpected performance bottlenecks. Learn how our team forced GCC to execute direct memcpy calls instead of slow inline assembly, balancing stringent binary size constraints with optimal runtime performance on edge architectures.

Transitioning from Netlink to shared memory for kernel-to-userspace IPC in a real-time system revealed hidden complexities. Discover why triggering demand paging in softirq contexts causes system instability and how we architected a lockless ring buffer to achieve safe, high-speed telemetry logging.

TypeScript excels at control flow analysis, but deep narrowing within generic object wrappers often frustrates engineering teams. In a recent SaaS platform build, we encountered a severe type inference limitation with nested discriminated unions. Learn how we refactored our generics to ensure strict type safety without performance-draining workarounds.