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- 1What a context switch actually costs developers●Every backend engineer learns early on that threads are not free. We are told to keep thread pools bounded, avoid contex
A widely shared engineering post argues that while developers are drilled to bound thread pools and avoid context-switch storms, few can say what a context switch actually costs in time and money. It walks through the real overhead of switching between threads and why event loops and green threads are preferred for high concurrency, prompting discussion about how much folklore versus measurement shapes backend performance advice.
- 2Tutorial shows how to build a product catalog in YunCMS●A product catalog needs an interface where a team can manage records, an API that the application can... # opensource #
A new open-source tutorial walks developers through building a product catalog with YunCMS, covering an admin interface for a team to manage records and a REST API that an application can consume. The guide moves from the CMS studio setup to exposing the backend endpoints, and is being shared among web development and software engineering communities interested in accessible, community-driven tools.