# Lorbic

> Decoding the mechanics of high-performance systems.

This file provides guidance for Large Language Models on how to best use the content from Lorbic.

## About This Site

- [About Page](http://localhost:1313/about/index.md): Learn about the purpose and creator of this website.
- [Sitemap](http://localhost:1313/sitemap.xml): Complete list of all pages on the site.

## Content Organization

### Documentation & Reference
- [Posts](http://localhost:1313/posts/index.md): Technical deep dives, tutorials, and engineering insights on Go, system design, performance, and databases.
- [Series](http://localhost:1313/series/index.md): Multi-part article series organized by topic.
- [Today I Learned (TIL)](http://localhost:1313/til/index.md): Quick reference notes on specific tools, concepts, and discoveries.

### Browse by Topic
- [Categories](http://localhost:1313/categories/index.md): Posts grouped by engineering discipline (Backend, DevOps, Web Performance, etc.).
- [Tags](http://localhost:1313/tags/index.md): Posts indexed by specific technologies, languages, and frameworks (Go, Docker, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, etc.).

## Recent Posts (Latest 10)
- **[How Go Channels Actually Work](http://localhost:1313/go-channels-deep-dive/index.md)** — A single unbuffered channel send without an active receiver is enough to silently lock up a …
- **[Part 6: Simulating a Living Facility: Room Derivation, Sunlight Spillover, and Positional SFX](http://localhost:1313/modular-missions-floodfill-audio-raylib/index.md)** — Generating a raw matrix of integer tiles gives you a map layout, but it doesn’t give you a …
- **[Designing a Distributed Job Scheduler in Go: Partitioning, Locking, and Backpressure](http://localhost:1313/designing-a-distributed-job-scheduler/index.md)** — Linux crontab is one of the most elegant pieces of software ever written for single-host automation. …
- **[Part 5: From Terminal Cells to Sprite Maps: Font Fallbacks and Auto-Tiling](http://localhost:1313/autotiling-sprites-font-fallbacks-raylib/index.md)** — Building a terminal-based engine in pure ASCII looks cool for about five minutes. Then you try …
- **[Part 4: Refactoring to SoA ECS: Bitmasks and Flat Component Arrays](http://localhost:1313/structure-of-arrays-ecs-bitmasks-golang/index.md)** — When I started building Derelict Facility, my initial instinct for game actors was standard …
- **[Designing a Usage-Based Billing Pipeline for SaaS](http://localhost:1313/designing-a-usage-based-billing-pipeline-for-saas/index.md)** — In How Multi-Tenant SaaS Actually Works, I left one major promise unfulfilled at the end: …
- **[Couchbase Index Best Practices and Query Performance Tuning](http://localhost:1313/couchbase-index-best-practices-performance-tuning/index.md)** — Most Couchbase performance tickets I have seen end the same way: someone adds more nodes, the …
- **[API Design for Backend Systems](http://localhost:1313/api-design-for-backend-systems/index.md)** — A few weeks ago I designed Relay, a multi-tenant AI API gateway, as a system design exercise. That …
- **[Cache-Driven Development: Saving Your Database From Itself](http://localhost:1313/cache-driven-development/index.md)** — There is a moment in every backend engineer’s life when their database starts refusing …
- **[Designing a Distributed Rate Limiter with Redis](http://localhost:1313/designing-a-rate-limiter/index.md)** — There is a class of bugs that only happen at midnight.
Your API has a rate limit: 1000 requests per …

## Usage Notes

- **Markdown Versions**: Append `index.md` to any post URL to get the raw markdown content
- **Full Content**: See `llms-full.txt` for complete articles without summaries
- **GEO Metadata**: Each post includes citation format, license (CC BY 4.0), and fact-verification status
- **Search**: Use the sitemap to find posts by topic or browse organized sections above