Howen
I'm howen, a final year computer science student at the National University of Singapore. I'm currently looking for a full-time software engineering role for when I graduate in June, 2026. Contact me if you'd like to chat!
Recent writings
Recent bookmarks
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The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query — PlanetScale
Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.
- Performance
- Distributed Systems
- Databases
- Database Internals
- Postgres
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But...
- Systems Programming
- Programming Languages
- Rust
- Python
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How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory...
- Performance
- Systems Programming
- Networks
- Rust
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Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing
- Testing
- Distributed Systems
- Storage
- Database Internals
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Using FoundationDB and the FDB Record Layer to Build CloudKit - Scott Gray, Apple
34 likes. "Using FoundationDB and the FDB Record Layer to Build Clo...
- Distributed Systems
- Storage
- Databases
- Database Internals