<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://four43.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://four43.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-12T22:36:20+00:00</updated><id>https://four43.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">four43</title><subtitle>Personal site of Seth Miller</subtitle><author><name>four43</name></author><entry><title type="html">Purpose Built Tools</title><link href="https://four43.com/purpose-built-tools/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Purpose Built Tools" /><published>2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://four43.com/purpose-built-tools</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://four43.com/purpose-built-tools/"><![CDATA[<p>A great lesson in how building durable, purpose built tools can out perform generic modern complexity.</p>

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  <p>It also handles 50,000 transactions per second with sub-100ms latency on hardware that costs a fraction of an equivalent cloud footprint. It has been doing this for 60 years. The lesson is not that old software is good software — it is that the right tool for the right job, well-maintained, is very hard to beat.</p>
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