Link roundup #9

Here's a big backlog of links I've enjoyed recently.

• A Trip Down The League of Legends Graphics Pipelines
• Introducing Riptide: WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector
• Rust vs. Go
• My Go Resolutions for 2017 (by Russ Cox)
• OK Log is a distributed and coördination-free log management system
• RethinkDB: why we failed
• Webmention: W3C Recommendation
• Add a const here, delete a const there…
• Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, And Memory Usage
• On Getting Old(er) in Tech
• Server-Side Rendering isn't a silver bullet!
• Why does calloc exist?
• How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
• Disadvantages of purely functional programming
• Grumpy: Go running Python!
• A Typed pluck: exploring TypeScript 2.1’s mapped types