ThierryBuilds

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Thierry here. I write about the mechanics of building reliable systems at BuildSoftwareSystems.com. My interests range from C++/Rust memory and OS internals to fault tolerance and microservices architecture. I’m mostly just fascinated by the journey from source code to machine code.

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Rapid: Property-Based Testing for Go github.com

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Basic C programming facts worth knowing buildsoftwaresystems.com

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Comment · 8 months ago

What really enabled Python to spread so much into scientific computing and AI is C/C++. Most if not all performance critical libraries are not really Python. They just expose a Python API

Comment · 8 months ago

I spent some time digging into the internal mechanics of process creation. It's one thing to call gcc or click 'Run', but I wanted to document the actual transition from a static binary on disk to the memory layout of a live process.

I tried to contrast the POSIX fork/exec model with the Windows CreateProcess approach. I’d love to hear from anyone who has had to deal with the more obscure parts of these system calls, like clone() flags or Windows process attributes.