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About the author

Hi there!

I’m Roman. I’m a software engineer passioned about distributed systems, programming languages, compilers, performance, and pure math. I did some hard-core software engineering at dfinity and worked on planet-scale distributed systems at Google.Shopping and Yandex.Maps. I live in Zürich area in Switzerland, where I practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo, go for long runs outdoors, play piano, and write about obscure topics.

About this website

This website is my personal blog. It doesn’t necessarily reflect my employer’s views. If you want to report an issue or have constructive feedback, open a GitHub issue.

What does mmap mean?

Mmap stands for memory-mapped file I/O. It’s a spark of simplicity and directness in the murky tech world buried under layers of abstractions.