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July 1, 2020: Post updated to take care that Amazon EFS increased file system minimum throughput, when burst credits are exhausted, to 1 MiB/s. I am very happy to announce that AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), a scalable and elastic NFS file system storing data within and…
How we chose the Rust programming language to advance the state-of-the-art in real-time communication
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Blog posts about GNU Guix.
Ekioh's multithreaded, parallel, Flow browser passes all three Acid tests.
PostgreSQL is a major open-source relational database with a 23-year history and a broad range of features. While Jepsen’s work has traditionally focused on distributed systems, our tooling is readily applicable to traditional, single-node databases. In this report, we present the results of applying Jepsen’s…
Posted by Brandon Azad, Project ZeroI recently found myself wishing for a single online reference...
Regular expressions – commonly known as RegExps – are a powerful and heavily used tool for manipulating strings in JavaScript. This post describes how we updated the RegExp engine in ...
After almost 2 years since R1/beta1, Haiku R1/beta2 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just download …
A look at the new Fuchsia Operating System.
Several months ago, I realized that I had a lot of sensitive files on my computer (my diary, if you must know) that I was afraid of losing, but I didn’t feel comfortable putting them in something like Google Drive or Dropbox. Introducing UtahFS.
With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run Wayland compositors with zero-copy graphics, including GNOME 3.
In Linux, system calls (syscalls) are at the heart of everything. They are the primary interface through which an application interacts with the kernel.
Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
26 April 2018 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 10 June 2021You may call them guidelines, heuristics, or rules of thumb. No matter, the purpose is the same: to provide a reasonable approximation of the truth. These rules of thumb can help guide your understanding of the systems you work on, focus you toward the ……
At the time of this article, Kubernetes is about six years old , and over the last two years, it has risen in popularity to consistently be one of the most loved platforms . This year, it comes in as the number three most loved platform . If you haven’t heard about Kubernetes yet, it’s a platform that allows you to…
Discover how Expensify achieved remarkable scaling: 4M QPS on one server! Dive into optimizing SQLite for impressive performance gains.
2020-05-26: MongoDB identified a bug in the transaction retry mechanism which they believe was responsible for the anomalies observed in this report; a patch is scheduled for 4.2.8.
The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems . Our next major project is to prevent such bugs at source.
FPGAs can be seen as a bridge between the domains of hardware and software as their hardware operation can be reprogrammed using code, giving developers unprecedented flexibility. In advanced products that Antmicro helps its customers build, this flexibility to process parallel data often needs to be complemented with…
What is RabbitMQ? Find out about this open-source message broker in our introduction to the powerful Message Queue tech.
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview One of our goals for every research project we work on in Check Point Research is to get an intimate understanding of how software work: What components do they contain? Are they vulnerable? How can attackers exploit these vulnerabilities? And more importantly, how can we protect…
DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
We are thrilled to announce the Windows Package Manager preview! If you’re already familiar with what a package manager is, feel free to skip this
Text-to-speech systems across the industry typically rely on GPUs or specialized hardware to generate state-of-the-art speech in real-time production. We solved core efficiency challenges to process one second of audio in 500 milliseconds — using only CPUs.
When evaluating networking for a host the focus is typically on latency, throughput or packets per second (pps) to see the maximum load a...
