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BSD vs. Linux (2005)
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Why is Python slow
In case you missed it, Marius recently wrote a post on the Pyston blog about our baseline JIT tier. Our baseline JIT sits between our interpreter tier and our LLVM JIT tier, providing better speed…
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Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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RethinkDB 2.1.5 performance and scalability
This report describes a recent effort that the RethinkDB team took to measure our database product, RethinkDB, under different workloads and in different clustering configurations. We seek to provide a general overview of RethinkDB’s performance metrics for a variety of workloads and potential use cases. In this…
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A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing #1: the results
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project ZeroThis post series is about how we used at-scale fu...
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Lossless compression with Brotli
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Beamforming in PulseAudio
In case you missed it – we got PulseAudio 9.0 out the door , with the echo cancellation improvements that I wrote about . Now is probably a good time for me to make good on my promise to expand upon the subject of beamforming.
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Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions
The portfolio of AWS storage products has grown increasingly rich and diverse over time. Amazon S3 started out with a single storage class and has grown to include storage classes for regular, infrequently accessed, and archived objects. Similarly, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) began with a single volume…
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How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint
Posted by Tavis Ormandy.Symantec is a popular vendor in the enterprise security market, their fla...
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Jepsen: Crate 0.54.9 version divergence
In the last Jepsen analysis, we saw that RethinkDB 2.2.3 could encounter spectacular failure modes due to cluster reconfiguration during a partition. In this analysis, we’ll talk about Crate, and find out just how many versions a row’s version identifies.
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Cheap HDMI capture for Linux
Lately I have had the need to do real time video capture from HDMI devices as of late for a project, and while looking around the internet found that all of the capture cards that are aimed at gamers (windows / OSX support only) or full blown production capture (Very expensive, more inputs than I need). The other…
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Intro to kernel debugging
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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data
This post guides you through monitoring and tuning the Linux network stack with the focus on receiving data.
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Visualising the .NET Garbage Collector
As part of an ongoing attempt to learn more about how a real-life Garbage Collector (GC) works (see part 1) and after being inspired by Julia Evans’ excellent post gzip + poetry = awesome I spent a some time writing a tool to enable a live visualisation of the .NET GC in action.
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Building a more power-efficient browser
Today, Jason Weber shared a post on the Windows Experience Blog demonstrating the power efficiency of Microsoft Edge over other popular browsers on Windows 10. With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we are hard at work pushing the envelope further, engineering Microsoft Edge to last even longer with typical…
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APFS in Detail
Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years. Media coverage to this…
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Gone Full Unikernel
Unikernels, once a niche computing topic, have become a subject of intense interest and exploration. One particular evolution in this domain is “Going Full Unikernel.” Continue readingGone Full Unikernel
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Sub-10ms roundtrip audio latency on Android
The Superpowered Media Server solves Android's audio latency problems.
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ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t
Prologue (2006) I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple’s launch of their DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple…
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Lock-free programming for the masses
Efficient concurrent programming libraries are essential for taking advantage of fine-grained parallelism on multicore hardware. In this post, I will introduce reagents , a composable, lock-free concurrency library for expressing fine-grained parallel programs on Multicore OCaml . Reagents offer a high-level DSL for…
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Distributed Systems in Haskell
I recently completed UT Austin's Distributed Computing class, taught by Lorenzo Alvisi. My project partner Pato and I decided to give it a go in Haskell, and ended up using Haskell for all project assignments (Chandy-Lamport, Paxos, and Bayou).
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Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust
ramblings by Adam Perry
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Why Rust for Low-Level Linux Programming?
I think Rust is extremely well-suited for low level Linux systems userspace programming — daemons, services, command-line tools, that sort of thing. Low-level userspace code on Linux is almos…