Poorna's reading list

This is a single page meant to be optimized so that I can display my reading list from my Obsidian vault on my Kobo e reader. This page makes no network requests so that its super fast to load.

Date Title Description
08-08-2025 How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB Radar offers geocoding, place search, and fraud detection APIs, powered by HorizonDB, a Rust-based engine delivering 20k QPS and sub-millisecond latency.
08-08-2025 Lago Blog - Why building a self-hosted SaaS is a headache (and how we make it easier)
08-08-2025 The Sun Never Leaves This post explores how mass emigration from Britain, rather than low fertility, led to its decline in global power, suggesting a counterfactual UK population of 200 million if no one had left.
08-08-2025 Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language F# is a pragmatic, .NET-friendly functional language that's great for enterprise apps, despite a smaller talent pool and some tooling kinks.
08-08-2025 Why Postgres is a Good Choice for Durable Workflow Execution | DBOS In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build DBOS durable workflow execution on the PostgreSQL DBMS.