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Escaping the Safari sandbox with a kernel GPU bug
Posted by Ian BeerTL;DRAn OS X GPU driver trusted a user-supplied kernel C++ object pointer and c...
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Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale
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Tornado Without a GIL on PyPy STM
This post is by Konstantin Lopuhin, who tried PyPy STM during the Warsaw sprint. Python has a GIL, right? Not quite - PyPy STM is a python ...
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Arrakis: The Operating System Is the Control Plane
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich
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AWS EC2 Container Service
Earlier this year I wrote about container computing and enumerated some of the benefits that you get when you use it as the basis for a distributed application platform: consistency & fidelity, development efficiency, and operational efficiency. Because containers are lighter in weight and have less memory and…
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Deis v1.0 – Production Ready
Discover Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for secure, scalable containerized app deployment and management with fast delivery on managed Kubernetes clusters.
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How we’ve made Raptor fast
Ruby web server up to 4x faster than Unicorn, up to 2x faster than Puma and Torquebox.
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PyPy IO improvements
Hello everyone! We've wrapped up the Warsaw sprint, so I would like to describe some branches which have been recently merged and which i...
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Please grow your buffers exponentially
If you record every heap allocation and re-allocation done by Firefox you find some interesting things. In particular, you find some sub-optimal buffer growth strategies that cause a lot of heap churn.
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Massive: The asm.js Benchmark
asm.js is a subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize. Most often it is generated by a compiler, such as Emscripten, from C or C++ code. The result ...
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Porting rr to x86-64
(TL;DR: rr from git can record and replay 64-bit programs. Try it for yourself !)
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Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
Cloud printing for retail and food and beverage operations.
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Linux 3.17
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.17 development cycle
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Spark Breaks Previous Large-Scale Sort Record
Read how Apache Spark sorted 100 TB of data (1 trillion records) 3X faster using 10X fewer machines in 2014.
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EC2 Maintenance Update II
I’d like to give you an update on the EC2 Maintenance announcement that I posted last week. Late yesterday (September 30th), we completed a reboot of less than 10% of the EC2 fleet to protect you from any security risks associated with the Xen Security Advisory (XSA-108). This Xen Security Advisory was embargoed until…
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