Costa Alexoglou
costa-alexoglou.bsky.social
Costa Alexoglou
@costa-alexoglou.bsky.social
Engineer 🦋
After teams start using Hopp, we kindly ask for their feedback.

My co-founder received some of the most detailed feedback possible: 395 words of pure, thoughtful input. Someone genuinely took the time to sit down and write this, no AI-generated content, just direct and honest feedback.
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Building for macOS is a delight, especially with features like "Center Stage."

While developing the camera-sharing feature for @gethopp_app, it's such a quality-of-life improvement for our users. They won't have to struggle to position themselves within a limited square space.
September 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New post dropped about balancing long-lived connections in Kubernetes (or anywhere really, k8s not needed 🤷).

blog.alexoglou.com/posts/long-...

Hope you enjoy!
July 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Engineering has its tiers: L3, L4, L5, and then there's the pinnacle—Plumber.

While diving into the origins of Envoy's creators at Lyft, I discovered Matt Klein proudly holds the ultimate title: Plumber.
July 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I've been planning to update @dscookbooks for the past year, aiming for it to become the largest registry of design systems.

Now, there are many new design systems—164 in total! Plus, there's an updated website featuring a page for each design system 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Any desktop app builders here? If so, what do you use for shipping?

We published a post about Tauri vs. Electron for those deciding between the two. Hope this helps!

gethopp.app/blog/tauri-...
Tauri vs. Electron: performance, bundle size, and the real trade-offs
A breakdown of the choice between Tauri and Electron for cross-platform apps, backed by practical comparisons and benchmark data.
gethopp.app
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hopp (gethopp.app) now has under 100ms latency, tailored for pair programming.

Iason (maintainer) wrote a post about WebRTC optimisations we tried, worth reading if you want to nerd out:

gethopp.app/blog/latenc...
Achieving <100 ms Latency for Remote Control with WebRTC
In this post we will explore the potential of WebRTC for remote control and how to achieve sub-100 millisecond latency.
gethopp.app
April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Engineers who write tech posts, do yourself a favor and dive into “Rules for Writing Software Tutorials” by @mtlynch.io

refactoringenglish.com/chapters/ru...
Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
It's easier than you think to write an exceptional software tutorial. You can stand out in a sea of mediocre guides by following a few simple rules.
refactoringenglish.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My latest post exploring Tail Latency and Hedging is now online. For those working in distributed systems, I hope it's worth your time reading. I'm eager to hear about the techniques you've used to reduce tail latency and improve your P99 performance.

Post: blog.alexoglou.com/posts/hedging/
Hedging: A 'Simple' Tactic to Tame Tail Latency in Distributed Systems | Costa on Software
Personal website of Costa Alexoglou, your friendly software engineer.
blog.alexoglou.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Sometimes lately I just write code in Neovim just to still maintain the ability to write code without AI assistance. This feels primitive nowadays.
March 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM