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There are roughly ten thousand bajillion (to the nearest bajillion) merchants registered with Stripe. We recently finished a Very Big Migration of Large Amounts Of Data between several database tables for every single one of them, without losing any of it, without any downtime, mis-reads or mis-writes, whilst running…
It’s widespread folklore that one advantage of garbage collection is the ease of building high-performance lock-free data structures. Manual memory management for these data structures is not easy, and a GC makes it trivial.
An overview of my work on improving SIMD in Rust.
This is an essential truth of async in its purest form: There is no thread.
At work we recently started using the MQTT protocol, which uses a publish / subscribe model. It’s simple in the good way and well thought out. We went with an open source implementation named…
Chronos is a distributed task scheduler (cf. cron) for the Mesos cluster management system. In this edition of Jepsen , we’ll see how simple network interruptions can permanently disrupt a Chronos+Mesos cluster
There's a little kerfuffle going on over on HN about a newly discovered local root exploit on OS X 10.10.5 , so I thought this might be a g...
Paying customers better get used to crowdsourced beta testing.
I have worked on optimizing the standard library deflate function, and I am happy to announce revised gzip/zip packages, that on x64 is about 30-50% faster with slightly improved compression. Project: https://github.com/klauspost/compress All packages are drop-in replacements for the standard libraries, so you can use…
I recently made a setup at work where I had a Nginx server facing the user, which would forward requests to a service running behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (aka. ELB). That in itself doesn’t sound like a difficult task, you just find the hostname for the ELB and point Nginx at it with a proxy_pass statement like…
As of last nightly (2015-07-23), Firefox for Linux is using Gtk+3 instead of Gtk+2.
In this post I explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables.
David Baron put this up in Mozilla’s San Francisco office a while back:
Playing Witcher 3, a GPU-intensive game on a 2015 fanless Macbook
Here at Malwarebytes we are experiencing phenomenal growth, and since I have joined the company over 1 year ago in the Silicon Valley, one my main responsibilities has been to architect and develop several systems to power a fast-growing security company and all the needed infrastructure to support a product that is…
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React is very popular at the moment, and I can see why: its developer ergonomics are very attractive. JSX and vDOM are really nice to work with, and it certainly enables composability. But, being the performance-minded person that I am, I wanted to test the claims that it's default-fast.
The microservices architecture can be useful, but to know if it's suitable in your context you need to understand its costs and benefits.
{This material originally appeared in the March, 1991 International Edition of Byte magazine, a McGraw-Hill publication} To describe TAOS (pronounced 'dowse' as in the oriental religion Daoism) as an innovatory operating system would be a profound understatement. It has so few points of
Last updated 6/26/2015 - 4:49 PM EST. -- Windows Update will be abbreviated as "WU" in text from myself. First of all, I had this incl...
I think that all other considerations are of the extrinsic real-world kind – domain modeling, usability, schedules, platforms, etc. I also think that I can show how any "good" programming practice is mainly aimed at minimizing redundancy, dependencies, or both. I even think that you can tell a "good" programmer from a…
As a Linux sysadmin in the 2010s, it's hard not to have an opinion on systemd. But what I find baffling about it is how divisive it is; nearly everyone (or at least the most vocal crowd) seems to either love it or hate it. When I tell people that systemd was the catalyst for my defection to OpenBSD last year, their…
