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Treating performance as a product: The technical story of Asana’s rewrite
Learn how the engineering team at Asana rewrote the Asana app to improve app performance and speed from an in-depth, technical perspective.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,560 posts.
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Farewell, Solaris
MongoDB's blog includes technical tutorials, MongoDB best practices, customer stories, and industry news related to the leading non-relational database.
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How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests per Day
Discover the tech stack used by Uploadcare. Explore 45 tools across 4 categories.
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Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes
The performance of mobile phone processors has been steadily increasing, causing the performance gap between server and mobile processors to narrow with mobile processors sporting superior performance per unit energy. Fueled by the slowing of Moore’s Law, the overall performance of single-chip mobile and server…
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A straight talk about btrfs
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Inside a fast CSS engine
Project Quantum is a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, Servo, and making massive improvements to other parts of ...
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The HDFS Juggernaut
There's been much focus on MongoDB, Elastic and Redis in terms of data exposure on the Internet due to their general popularity in the developer community. However, in terms of data volume it turns out that HDFS is the real juggernaut. To give you a better idea here's a quick
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64-bit Firefox is the new default on 64-bit Windows
Users on 64-bit Windows who download Firefox can get our 64-bit version by default. That means you get a more secure version of Firefox, one that also crashes a whole lot less . How much less? In our tests so far, 64-bit Firefox reduced crashes by 39% on machines with 4GB of RAM or more.
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Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
Hello everyone The Python community has been discussing removing the Global Interpreter Lock for a long time. There have been various atte...
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Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory from User Mode
I were going to write an introduction about how important negative results can be. I didn’t. I assume you can figure out for yourself why that is and if not you got all the more reason to read this blog post. If you think it’s trivial why my result is negative, you definitely need to read the blog post.
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Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Introducing the Keybase filesystem
Browse technical documentation on the public-key cryptography that powers Keybase. Learn how Keybase Chats, Files, Teams, and Git are secured.
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Microsoft didn’t sandbox Windows Defender, so I did
Microsoft exposed their users to a lot of risks when they released Windows Defender without a sandbox. This surprised me. Sandboxing is one of the most effective security-hardening techniques. Why did Microsoft sandbox other high-value attack surfaces such as the JIT code in Microsoft Edge, but leave Windows Defender…
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Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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Routing & Network Namespaces
Like all Linux network interfaces, WireGuard integrates into the network namespace infrastructure. This means an administrator can have several entirely different networking subsystems and choose which interfaces live in each.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta
We're excited to announce that in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) due to ship in fall 2017, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will no longer be a
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Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET
We propose integrating safe manual memory management with garbage collection in the .NET runtime to get the best of both worlds.
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FreeBSD 11.1 released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE. This is the second release of the stable/11 branch.
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Trust Issues: Exploiting TrustZone TEEs
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroMobile devices are becoming an increasingly privacy-sensitiv...
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Don’t run this on any system you expect to be up they said, but we did it anyway
This is the story of how we upgraded over 2000 Ubuntu production servers – turning over millions an hour – by installing the operating system in memory, wiping the root disk and reinstalling the OS back on disk from RAM. We did it, there was zero data loss and it saved us lots of time and...
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How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month
Discover the tech stack used by CircleCI. Explore 34 tools across 4 categories.
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27000 errors in the Tizen operating system
This article will demonstrate that during the development of large projects static analysis is not just a useful, but a completely necessary part of the development process. This article is the first...