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ReactOS 0.4.11 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 498 posts.
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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.
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Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)
In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and x86. We de…
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SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future
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Flavors of SIMD
If you like this blog, you should follow it via RSS and read older posts . Here are the recent posts:
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Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)
Once upon a time, my computer architecture professor mentioned that using a random eviction policy for caches really isn't so bad. That random eviction isn't bad can be surprising — if your cache fills up and you have to get rid of something, choosing the least recently used (LRU) is an obvious choice, since you're…
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AWS Nitro System
At Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton at the 2016 AWS re:Invent conference, I introduced the first Amazon Web Services custom silicon. The ASIC I showed formed the foundational core of our second generation custom network interface controllers and, even back in 2016, there was at least one of these ASICs going…
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LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve
A summary of my undying love for LD_PRELOAD.
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Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers
A complete and comprehensive guide to learn about, set up, and deploy Chaos Monkey and other similar tools for creating chaos. Download the whole guide.
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Cache tables
Hash tables are the most popular probabilistic data structure, by quite a margin. You compute some hash code then compute an array index from that hash code. If you’re using open addressing-c…
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