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Backend engineer. I write about distributed systems, databases, and whatever side project I happen to be hacking on. Occasionally life notes too.

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Top-K Dynamic Pruning in Full-Text Search

Inverted index → BM25 → threshold θ → WAND / Block-Max WAND / MaxScore / BMM. A from-scratch study note on why you don’t have to score every document.

June 5, 2026 · 14 min · 2816 words · Zack Cao

Milvus 2.6 CDC — Technical Q&A

Technical Q&A on Milvus 2.6 CDC: architecture, replicate config, channel semantics, failover modes, observability, and the 2.5→2.6 comparison.

May 26, 2026 · 59 min · 12423 words · Zack Cao

Pinning Claude Code usage to the GNOME top bar — without freezing the desktop

When the top-bar widget itself becomes the perf incident. Fixed it with a systemd timer + tmpfs cache instead of trying to make ccusage faster.

May 26, 2026 · 7 min · 1356 words · Zack Cao

Pulsar backlog quota → producer 重连:pulsar-client-go v0.17.0 vs v0.19.0 复刻对比实验

PDF 描述的 producer 永久卡死问题已在 v0.19.0 修复 —— 复刻 + 扩展实验

May 18, 2026 · 4 min · 843 words · Zack Cao

Hello, world

Why I’m starting another blog in 2026.

May 12, 2026 · 2 min · 247 words · Zack Cao

Setting up this blog: Hugo + Vultr + Cloudflare

$70 a year, one weekend, fully owned.

May 12, 2026 · 2 min · 418 words · Zack Cao