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The Definitive Guide on Win32 to NT Path Conversion (2016)
Posted by James Forshaw, path’ological reverse engineer.How the Win32 APIs process file pat...
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Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder
With this week's release of Firefox 67, the new high performance royalty-free AV1 video decoder dav1d is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for ...
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JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat
It took six whole seconds to merge 15,000 arrays with an average size of 5 elements with .concat. What the hell is the Javascript's .concat method doing under the hood?
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Linux distros without systemd
Affordable VM hosting in Glarus, Switzerland, operated by 100% hydropower. Devuan, debian, freebsd, ubuntu, centos. Our tech stack is fully open source.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
Advancing the state of the art of HTTP/2 to deliver a faster user experience. See why it matters and how much of a differenc
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To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)
Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!
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Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB
Every monitoring system has to deal with three kinds of performance-related challenges. Firstly, a good monitoring system must receive, process and record incoming data very quickly. Every microsecond counts here. This may not seem obvious from the start but when your system becomes large enough all the tiny fractions…
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Introducing Windows Terminal
We are beyond excited to announce Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for
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Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows
Beginning with Windows Insiders builds this Summer, we will include an in-house custom-built Linux kernel to underpin the newest version of the Windows
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Announcing WSL 2
WSL 2 is a new architecture that allows for dramatic file system performance and full system call compatibility in WSL using a Linux kernel.
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Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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How C array sizes become part of the binary interface of a library
We explain how C array sizes become part of the binary interface of a library and examine ways to avoid ABI compatibility issues.
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eBPF Can't Count?
It is unlikely we can tell you anything new about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF for short, if you've read all the great man pages, docs, guides, and some of our blogs out there. But we can tell you a war story, who doesn't like those?
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Use mmap with care
When we implemented the git portion of Sublime Merge , we chose to use mmap for reading git object files. This turned out to be considerably more difficult than we had first thought. Using mmap in desktop applications has some serious caveats, and here's why:
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Fedora 30
It seems like it was just six months ago that we announced Fedora 29, and here we are again. Today, we announce our next operating system release. Even though it went so quickly, a lot has happened in the last half year, and you’ll see the results in Fedora 30. If you’re impatient, go to […]
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PostgreSQL Features to Try
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.
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When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup
Today, we'd like to share some of our recent work on Sherlock that allowed a pretty significant speedup when listing files in directories with a lot of entries. > Unlike our usual announcements, this post is more of a behind-the-scenes...
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Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database
Here is an outline of some of architectural issues addressed as we build YugabyteDB, our high-performance distributed SQL database.
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Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
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V8: A Year with Spectre
The V8 team details their analysis and mitigation strategy for Spectre, one of the top computer security issues of 2018.
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