Alden Pike
PHP · elephantphp.com
Writes about what happens beneath frameworks and abstractions, from language internals to production behavior. Measurements over assumptions.
Writes ElephantPHP
13 issues since
The authors
One byline each, and every one a practitioner.
The imprint is a team of specialists, not a pool of writers. Every publication carries exactly one name; the person behind it works in that language every day and writes about what they have run, measured and repaired. Listed in order of first issue.
Jonah Vail
JavaScript · jsledger.com
Explores what happens beneath runtimes, frameworks and tooling. Source code and reproducible experiments over received wisdom.
Writes JS Ledger
13 issues since
Marcus Venn
Java · jvmscope.com
Runtime behaviour, concurrency and garbage collection. Prefers JDK source and reproducible experiments to rules of thumb.
Writes JVM Scope
12 issues since
Elliot Sayer
Python · pydepth.com
Language behavior, concurrency and the trade-offs hidden beneath Python's deceptively simple surface. Measurements over folklore.
Writes PyDepth
12 issues since
Callum Reeve
C# · csharpmind.com
The language and its lowering, the JIT’s decisions, and what garbage collection costs. Settles a claim against runtime source, a documented knob, or an experiment that states its SDK build.
Writes CSharpMind
8 issues since
Elias Rowe
SQL · sqlpress.com
Database engineer. Publishes a claim only when the version is exact, the setup is written down, and the reasoning can be checked.
Writes SQLPress
8 issues since
Nolan Keir
Go · gopheria.com
Concurrency, runtime behavior and performance. Prefers reproducible experiments to rules of thumb, and publishes the code behind every measurement.
Writes Gopheria
10 issues since
seven specialists, one for each publication in the imprint. A new byline is a data entry, not a redesign.