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You may have heard of the "The One Billion Row Challenge" (1brc) and in case you don't, go checkout Gunnar Morlings's 1brc repo. I got sucked in because two of my colleagues have entered the competition and are on the leaderboard. PHP is not known for its speed, but as I am working on the PHP profiler I thought I gi...

In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static typing: JavaScript (via TypeScript), PHP, Python, even Ruby has something along the lines as far as I know.It’s become quite widespread in each of these languages’ communities, to the point of being considered a best practice...

I build a lot of web based tools that aren't exposed to the internet that work with databases. I come from the era where a lot of the tooling that modern development uses wasn't common place. If...