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How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M 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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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,560 posts.
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Fedora 26 released
[This message comes from the desk of the Fedora Project Leader directly. Happy release day! — Ed.] Hi everyone! I’m incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 26. Read more below, or just jump to download from: Get Fedora 26 Workstation Get Fedora 26 Server Get Fedora 26 Atomic Host ← includes…
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Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop
It’s no secret that hardware selection is one of the biggest hurdles Qubes users face. Finding a computer that is secure, trustworthy, and compatible is more difficult than it should be. In an effort to address the compatibility aspect of that problem, we introduced the Qubes-certified ...
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Ubuntu now available from the Windows store
Today, we’re excited to announce that Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Distro is now available in the Windows Store and can be downloaded and installed on any
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Unikernels are secure
Per Buer is the CEO of IncludeOS . IncludeOS is a clean-slate unikernel written in C++ with performance and security in mind. Per Buer is the founder and previous CEO/CTO of Varnish Software.
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Pillow-SIMD – Fast, production-ready image resize for x86
Learn how Uploadcare engineers found out how to resize images on Intel processors faster than Intel itself
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I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors
Instructors of “Introduction to programming” courses know that students are willing to blame the failures of their programs on anything. Sorting routine discards half of the data? “That might be a Windows virus!” Binary search always fails? “The Java compiler is acting funny today!” More experienced programmers know…
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Nuts and Bolts of Multithreaded Programming (2011)
Access technologies that use data for modern code, machine learning, big data, analytics, networking, storage, servers, cloud, and more.
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Exactly-once Semantics: How Kafka Does it
Exactly-once is a hard problem to solve, but we've done it. Available now in Apache Kafka 0.11, exactly-once semantics.
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Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once
The single requirement of all data pipelines is that they cannot lose data. Data can usually be delayed or re-ordered–but never dropped.
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The Limits of the CAP Theorem
This post explains how CAP-Consistent systems can be highly available, how the CAP theorem applies to CockroachDB, and why consistency is the better choice.
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Streaming Combinators and Extracting Flat Parallelism
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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Multiple regex performance shootout: RE2 vs. Intel's Hyperscan
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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An Ancient Kernel Hole Is Not Closed
The "stack clash" series of vulnerabilities were a prime opportunity to demonstrate the strength of grsecurity's approach to security. Unlike upstream Linux and other OSes, the issues uncovered were unexploitable under grsecurity for many years.
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Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web.
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FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here
In the TrueNAS blog, discover the latest in scalable data storage solutions. Stay updated on the latest innovations in TrueNAS technology.
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SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs can be read from or written to individual files on disk using fread() or fwrite().
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Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity
Microsoft releases additional updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity
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Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production
How Heap runs 10 million postgreSQL indexes in production.
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Facebook Trains ImageNet in 1 Hour
Facebook published a paper today detailing how they are able to train nearly 1.3 million images in under an hour using 256 Tesla P100 GPUs that previously took days on a single system.
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x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB
This blog post outlines how CockroachDB executes queries and shares Cockroach Labs' vision for future work on distributed processing.
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Performance Improvements in .NET Core
Update (2017/06/12): Added BenchmarkDotNet blog post link. There are many exciting aspects to .NET Core (open source, cross platform, x-copy deployable, etc.) that have been covered in posts on this blog before. To me, though, one of the most exciting aspects of .NET Core is performance. There’s been a lot of…
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