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CockroachDB Stability Post-Mortem: From 1 Node to 100 Nodes
In August, we wrote about our concerted stability effort. Today, we've more than achieved our CockroachDB stability goal of running a 100-node cluster.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,949 posts.
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CertiKOS: A breakthrough toward hacker-resistant operating systems
A team of Yale researchers has unveiled CertiKOS, the world’s first operating system that runs on multi-core processors and shields against cyber attacks.
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How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.
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Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles
Quote: Back in 80s, it was possible to calculate the speed of the program just by looking at assembly. Another Quote: keep in mind that these days compilers ...
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UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (2014)
AdamW on Linux and more
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Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project
Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project
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A bug story: data alignment on x86
This sounds unusual. Who ever wants to do this in real life? Normally, we only see code like this as primary school assignments or compiler benchmarks. However, this time it happened in real life.
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The End of the General Purpose Operating System
As interesting chat on Twitter today reminded me that not everyone is probably aware that we’re seeing a concerted attempt to dislodge the general purpose operating system from our servers.
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H265: Technical Overview
HEVC is among us. On January 25, 2013, the ITU announced the completion of the first stage approval of the H.265 video codec standard and in the last 1 year several vendors/entities have started to…
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Docker in Production: A History of Failure
Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…
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H.264 is Magic
A high level walkthrough of the basics of video compression techniques used in MPEG, AVC/H.264, codecs.
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Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)
Nano How-To explaining how to setup a root file system with only emacs.
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X86 Register Encoding
If you've ever look at the disassembly output for C or C++ code, you'll probably notice that there are a lot of push/pop instructions. And if you pay close enough attention, you'll notice that the compiler prefers to use certain registers over others. In particular, compilers will prefer pushing "old" registers like…
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Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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This Summer in Redox: A Complete Rewrite of the Kernel
The Redox official website
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Making Chrome on Windows Faster with PGO
Chrome is always looking for ways to speed up the web. Starting in Chrome 53, Chrome has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimizat...
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Elementary OS
I’m not one prone to knee-jerk reactions, but I’m also not one to sit about idly without considering alternatives. So the first thing I did after the Apple ...
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Robert Elder Software Linux Operating System
Dec 12, 2019 Update: This piece of software is no longer available as I have turned it off due to lack of interest. The article below used to contain a number of links which I have removed. The content below remains only for archival purposes.
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DTrace for Linux 2016
DTrace for Linux 2016: announcing a major milestone: the final kernel capabilities have merged in Linux 4.9-rc1 to enhanced BPF (eBPF) to provide an advanced programmable dynamic tracer similar to DTrace.
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Task_t considered harmful
Posted by Ian Beer, Project ZeroThis post discusses a design issue at the core of the XNU kernel ...
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Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned
Here is the story of how we leveraged research on web-caching and NoSQL systems to prepare a webshop for hundreds of thousands of visitors…
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A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture: FPGAs in Microsoft’s Datacenters
A hyperscale Configurable Cloud architecture using FPGAs to efficiently accelerate networking and applications with a distributed fabric in the data center.
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