How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
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Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
The story behind how LinkedIn created Apache Kafka