Jason Wilder
jasonwilder.com
Jason Wilder
@jasonwilder.com
Software developer interested in scalability, performance, databases and distributed systems. Currently working on AKS at Azure. Previously InfluxData.
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TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.

Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.

Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.

HN: why pick Go anyway?
cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go
Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...
github.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Did a talk this morning about my career and how to make an impact as an IC. Here's the last slide.
January 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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O11y 1.0 has many sources of truth, and three pillars -- metrics, logs and traces. For every request that enters your system you end up capturing it in a RUM tool, APM tool, tracing, profiling, etc

O11y 2.0 has a single source of truth: wide, structured log events. jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-pract...
November 18, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services “played a part in one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory.” www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/fact-checkin...
Fact-checking Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Vaccines, Autism, and Covid-19 | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
FactCheck.org has published a three-part series on candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s false and misleading claims about vaccines, autism, and Covid-19.
www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org
November 15, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I can’t see RTO policies lasting long with RFK running things
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 AM
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Many folks don’t fully realize the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s contributions to open source. This blog post by @brendandburns.bsky.social summarizes work of 100s of people, moving forward the state of the art in cloud native, for the whole community.

opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11...
What's new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2024 - Microsoft Open Source Blog
At Microsoft, learn how we are committed to innovation in the cloud-native ecosystem through contributions and leadership from engineers across Azure.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 12, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Go Turns 15 - The Go Programming Language
Happy 15th birthday, Go!
go.dev
November 12, 2024 at 6:01 AM
I’m still amazed seeing Colin Farrel as the Penguin each week.
November 11, 2024 at 2:23 AM