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Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2
This article reveals the stats that show two frequently used system calls are 77% slower on AWS EC2 and its causes.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,949 posts.
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Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy
How we took eggs out of the S3 basket.
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V8: A Tale of TurboFan
Personal website of Benedikt Meurer, JavaScript Engine Hacker and Programming Language Enthusiast.
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Riot Games Messaging Service
Hey there! My name is Michal 0xDEADB33F Ptaszek, and I’m a software architect at Riot. Today I would like to talk about communication. But not the kind of communication you’re probably thinking of. I want to talk about the other, more exci…
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The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)
Do you love ("very") high-level languages? Like Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby? Or maybe Haskell, ML? I love high-level languages.
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Epoll is fundamentally broken
This time we'll focus on Linux's select(2) successor - the epoll(2) I/O multiplexing syscall.
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Do we really need swap on modern systems?
Optimize virtual memory management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Learn how to configure swap for optimal performance
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Docker in Production: An Update
The previous article Docker in Production: A History of Failure was quite a hit. After long discussions, hundreds of feedbacks, thousands of comments, meetings with various individuals and major pl…
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APIs, robustness, and idempotency
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 Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop
Beyond its status as a world leader in hackathon organization, BeMyApp has been supporting its customers' digital transformation for 10 years. We are committed to accelerating the development of their innovations by animating internal and external communities around the world, through in-person, virtual, or hybrid…
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How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
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Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine
After having fun reverse engineering the Comprehend Adventure game (Recomprehend) I was looking for a new DOS game reverse engineering project. Over the years various people have reversed a lot of …
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C++ on Embedded Systems
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
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How copying an int made my code 11 times faster
I have moved off Medium to a personal blog. Click here for the updated post.
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Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes
Digging up some useful and not so popular commands in Linux
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Recommendations about coding in C++
Find software and development products, explore tools and technologies, connect with other developers and more. Sign up to manage your products.
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ReactOS 0.4.4 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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CockroachDB beta-20161013
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database, loosely patterned after Google Spanner and designed for semi-synchronous networks. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol , supports a reasonable dialect of SQL , and combines replication for durability with transparent scale-out sharding for large tables. Its most…
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Attacking the Windows Nvidia Driver
Posted by Oliver ChangModern graphic drivers are complicated and provide a large promising attack...
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Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem
Building systems that manage globally distributed data, provide data consistency and are also highly available is really hard. The beauty of the cloud is that someone else can build that for you.
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Amazon EBS Update – New Elastic Volumes Change Everything
It is always interesting to speak with our customers and to learn how the dynamic nature of their business and their applications drives their block storage requirements. These needs change over time, creating the need to modify existing volumes to add capacity or to change performance characteristics. Today’s 24×7…
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The Fastest Blog in the World (2015)
Update: James Hague, aka Dadgum was inspired by this to do some work on his blog and I’m happy to report that now his blog is the fastest blog in the world, 4K transferred and 1 request per page, load time < 75 ms. If you have a blog that’s even faster than that let me know.
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50 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (2013)
While doing evil things with macros and the inline assembler (trying to run a weird test whose purpose is not really relevant) I managed to write a program that caused Visual Studio’s C++ compiler …