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As you can see from my EC2 Instance History post, we add new instance types on a regular and frequent basis. Driven by increasingly powerful processors and designed to address an ever-widening set of use cases, the size and diversity of this list reflects the equally diverse group of EC2 customers! Near the bottom of…
We’ve all been there! You need to make a quick, seemingly simple fix to an important production database. You compose the query, give it a once-over, and let it run. Seconds later you realize that you forgot the WHERE clause, dropped the wrong table, or made another serious mistake, and interrupt the query, but the […]
In two weeks since open sourcing FoundationDB , we’ve had an outpouring of interest.
By far, the worst part of working on beets is dealing with filenames. And since our job is to keep track of your files in the database, we have to deal with them all the time. This post describes the filename problems we discovered in the project’s early days, how we address them now, and some alternatives for the…
Algolia started out as a mobile SDK for apps that wanted better offline search. After customers starting asking for a hosted search product, they quic
Taking a look at MyRocks performance through some benchmark testing.
Data sent over the Internet will traverse a large number of smaller links. The combination of these links forms a path from the sender to the receiver. Sometimes data is lost when it traverses this path. For video and audio streams such losses can lead to playback glitches if not corrected.
Starting with Chrome 66, V8 caches more (byte)code by generating the cache after top-level execution.
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Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5's VDO for storage optimization - save space, boost performance
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
DragonFly version 5.2 brings Meltdown/Spectre mitigation, significant improvements to HAMMER2, ipfw, and graphics acceleration. 5.2.1 includes a fix for CVE-2018-8897 , and 5.2.2 includes a fix for the LazyFP bug, CVE-2018-3665 .
Cloudflare's jpegtran implementation was optimized for Intel CPUs. Now that we intend to integrate ARMv8 processors, new optimizations for those are required.
Introducing Spectrum: a new Cloudflare feature that brings DDoS protection, load balancing, and content acceleration to any TCP-based protocol.Today we are releasing Spectrum.
Improved video compression is important for delivering digital video files more quickly and with higher quality, while using less bandwidth and storage. Everything from 4K movie streaming to smartp…
I became involved in the nanomsg community back in 2014, when I wrote mangos as a pure Go implementation of the wire protocols behind nanomsg . I did that work because I was dissatisfied with the ZeroMQ licensing model and the C++ baggage that came with it. I also needed something that would work with Go on illumos …
Learn which performance metrics matter, why to demand benchmark TPC-C results under serializable isolation, and how CockroachDB 2.0’s performance compares to 1.1.
After nearly two years in development and countless hours of testing, we’re pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes OS 4.0! Major changes in version 4.0 Version 4.0 includes several fundamental improvements to the security and functionality of Qubes OS: The Qubes Admin API Qubes...
An important feature of transactional databases like SQLite is "atomic commit". Atomic commit means that either all database changes within a single transaction occur or none of them occur. With atomic commit, it is as if many different writes to different sections of the database file occur instantaneously and…
One of our large scale data infrastructure challenges here at Cloudflare is around providing HTTP traffic analytics to our customers. HTTP Analytics is available to all our customers via two options:
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