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Scaling your API with rate limiters
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,949 posts.
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How Algolia Reduces Latency
Discover the tech stack used by Algolia. Explore 15 tools across 4 categories.
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Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs
Design differences of containers, Zones, Jails and VMs.
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DragonFly BSD 4.8 released
DragonFly version 4.8 brings EFI boot support in the installer, further speed improvements in the kernel, a new NVMe driver, a new eMMC driver, and Intel video driver updates.
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Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames
“iOS HFS Normalized UNICODE names, APFS now treats all files as a bag of bytes on iOS. We are requesting that Applications developers call the correct Normalization routines to make sure the file name contains the correct representation.”
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Gryadka is not Paxos, so it's probably wrong
In the original version of this post, I claimed that gryadka , which claims to be built on top of a Paxos-backed CAS register, was incorrect by providing a “counter-example”.
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Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code
Just over 2 years ago Microsoft open-sourced the entire .NET framework, this posts attempts to provide a ‘Hitchhikers Guide’ to the source-code found in the CoreCLR GitHub repository.
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Adventures in JIT compilation: Part 1 – an interpreter
This is the first post in a series about JIT compilers. The plan is to take a simple input language and develop some interpreters and JITs for it, in roughtly increasing degree of complexity. It's my hope that by the end of the series readers will have a good understanding of what it takes to develop a JIT compiler…
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How long does it take to make a context switch? (2010)
That's a interesting question I'm willing to spend some of my time on. Someone at StumbleUpon emitted the hypothesis that with all the impr...
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Epoll is broken – part 2/2
In this post we'll discuss the second argument on why the epoll() is broken. The problem is best described in an LWN comment by Foom :
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Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries
I’m very excited to announce that today I’m open-sourcing atool I’ve been working on for several months at Google.It’s called Bloaty McBloatface, and it lets...
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Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes?
PostgreSQL have supported Hash Index for a long time, but they are not much used in production mainly because they are not durable. Now, ...
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How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages Using Elasticsearch
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Introducing FreeNAS Corral
In the TrueNAS blog, discover the latest in scalable data storage solutions. Stay updated on the latest innovations in TrueNAS technology.
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Reducing power consumption for background tabs
Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars . To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power ...
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Using JDK 9 Memory Order Modes
This guide is mainly intended for expert programmers familiar with Java concurrency, but unfamiliar with the memory order modes available in JDK 9 provided by VarHandles. Mostly, it focuses on how to think about modes when developing parallel software. Feel free to first read the Summary .
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Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster
Blender Studio is a web service that provides access the training videos and all the data from the Blender open projects.
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Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015)
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Better Compression with Zstandard
I think I first heard about the Zstandard compression algorithm at a Mercurial developer sprint in 2015. At one end of a large table a few people were uttering expletives out of sheer excitement. At developer gatherings, that's the universal signal for something is awesome . Long story short, a Facebook engineer…