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Xfce 4.12 released
Today, after 2 years and 10 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.12, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.10.
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Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
Update Jun 18, 2014: I have made some corrections since the original version of this post.
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Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectural Design
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Fix your damned data races
Nathan Froyd recently wrote about how he has been using ThreadSanitizer to find data races in Firefox, and how a number of Firefox developers — particular in the networking and JS GC teams — have been fixing these.
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First fully sandboxed Linux desktop app
Its not a secret that I've been working on sandboxed desktop applications recently. In fact, I recently gave a talk at devconf.cz about it. However, up until now I've mainly been focusing on the bundling and deployment aspects of the problem. I've been running applications in their own environment, but having pretty…
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Let's Build a Modern Hadoop
Not just another Hadoop rant — I promise
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Snappy Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi 2
“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu…
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Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2
Set up a development environment that works for you, build native Windows apps, and create AI-powered and agentic experiences with Windows.
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Project Silk
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang's personal blog. For the past few months, I've been working on Project Silk which improves smoothness across ...
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Gnome Wayland porting – the endgame
Its been a while since I mentioned Wayland in this space - of course that doesn't mean that work on GNOME Wayland support has stopped. Quite the opposite, in fact. The GNOME 3.15.4 release that is due this week will close a number of the remaining gaps: libinput 0.8 has been released, with most of...
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Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2
An important rule when building a highly available and highly reliable system is to design for failure. In other words, your design model should assume that, as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has said, “everything fails all the time.” Fortunately, modern data centers, networks, and servers are highly reliable, and failures…
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How We Failed at OpenStack
Use Equinix Fabric to establish direct, low-latency connections to a variety of services providers.
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Improving math performance in glibc
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How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
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Effectively Managing Memory at Gmail Scale
While JavaScript employs garbage collection for automatic memory management, it is not a substitute for effective memory management in applications. JavaScript applications suffer from the same memory related problems that native applications do, such as memory leaks and bloat, yet they must also deal with garbage…
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New optimizations for X86 in upcoming GCC 5.0
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