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Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker
My story of replacing three servers, across two countries, running two operating systems with a single server running Alpine Linux and Docker.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,949 posts.
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A Gentle Introduction to Multithreading
Approaching the world of concurrency, one step at a time.
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Better web video with AV1 codec
Learn to use AV1 to make videos on your website smaller and better quality. CLI instructions and cross-browser tricks.
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DTrace on Windows
Introducing DTrace on Windows 10
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Most long-standing XHCI (USB 3.0+) issues resolved
Last month, I sat down and decided to at the very least attempt to fix our XHCI (USB 3 host controller) bus driver. Issues with it have been the most significant problem users have been facing, as most hardware made post-2012 has an XHCI chip as the …
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A generalised solution to distributed consensus
A generalised solution to distributed consensus Howard & Mortier, arXiv’19 This is a draft paper that Heidi Howard recently shared with the world via Twitter, and here’s the accompanying …
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“It's done in hardware so it's cheap” (2012)
This is one of these things that look very obvious to me, to the point where it seems not worth discussing. However, I've heard the idea that "hardware magically makes things cheap" from several PhDs over the years. So apparently, if you aren't into hardware, it's not obvious at all.
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Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive
The latest tutorials, best practices, insights and customer stories on the Lob APIs, direct mail, and address verification.
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PureOS is convergent
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy
Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy Hellerstein & Alvaro, arXiv 2019 The CALM conjecture (and later theorem) was first introduced to the world in a 2010 keynote talk at PODS. Beh…
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JVM Anatomy Quarks: Compressed References
"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to readily interact with each other.
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The sad state of font rendering on Linux
As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks.
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Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
In this article, we explain how to scale Elixir to handle 100k connections per second.
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FaunaDB 2.5.4
In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
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ReactOS 0.4.11 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Millions of Binaries Later: A Look into Linux Hardening in the Wild
With Sophos Cloud Native Security, you can easily integrate protection across multiple environments while minimizing detection time and response.
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How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs
I’m pleased to report that Hyperscan, the regular expression matcher that ate my life from 2008 through 2018, finally has a paper (pdf) – it’s being presented this week at NSDI &#…
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The art of writing eBPF programs
A blog about the process of writing Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) programs and what’s going on under the hood at the kernel-level.
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Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages
Get immediate access to Gremlin
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Notes on the Amazon Aurora Paper
This is my notes on the paper: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.
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The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
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PureBoot, the High Security Boot Process
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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MySQL Challenge: 100k Connections
It's not beyond possibility to set up MySQL to achieve 100,000 concurrent connections if you balance network config and use thread pools. By Vadim Tkachenko
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Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
In this regularly but rarely updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions' problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and shortcomings (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should…
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Linux Fsync Issue for Buffered IO and Its Preliminary Fix for PostgreSQL
With the latest upgrades to PostgreSQL the fsync failure had been fixed. Avinash Vallarapu takes a look at why this issue might cause problems.
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AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
A performance comparison between three different methods of deploying an API on AWS
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Breaking Out of Docker via RunC
Unit 42 brings together world-renowned threat researchers, incident responders and security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response-ready organization that's passionate about helping you proactively manage cyber risk.