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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,950 posts.
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Branchless code sequences
David Thomas's website.
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Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads
Please note: our followup analysis of 3.4.0-rc3 revealed additional faults in MongoDB’s replication algorithms which could lead to the loss of acknowledged documents–even with Majority Write Concern, journaling, and fsynced writes.
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Understanding Container Reuse in AWS Lambda
Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda functions execute in a container (sandbox) that isolates them from other functions and provides the resources, such as memory, specified in the function’s configuration. In this article we discuss how Lambda creates and reuses these sandboxes, and the impact of those policies on the…
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A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport
Last year we announced QUIC , a UDP-based transport protocol for the modern Internet. Over the last quarter, we’ve been increasing the amo...
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Test iOS and Android Audio Latency with Superpowered Latency Test App
iOS and Android Audio Latency Test App with round-trip audio latency data for Apple, Samsung Galaxy, Xiaomi, LG, HTC, Nexus, Motorola, Sony, etc. devices.
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32-bit x86 Position Independent Code – It's That Bad
Let's start by looking at a simple C function to be compiled as position-independent code (i.e. -fPIC , for use in a shared library):
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Socket.IO C++
I'm really proud to announce the first release of the Socket.IO C++ Client on GitHub!
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Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
NOTE: This article has been superseded by my more recent one here
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Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf
Yet another proprietary tech titan turns to the free OpenBSD operating system as their source of innovation in the networking and security ...
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Firefly – Full Text Search Engine for Dropbox
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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Building a lower-latency GC
We’ve been doing a bunch of work recently on improving the responsiveness of OCaml’s garbage collector. I thought it would be worth discussing these developm...
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Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)
When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits.
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Microsoft Announces Nano Server
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A few spy tools for your operating system (other than strace)
A few spy tools for your operating system (other than strace!)
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HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it
R&D computing at scale
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JIT-compilation using GCC 5
Read the most recent Red Hat Developers blog content. Explore our featured monthly resource as well as our most recently published items.
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Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary
A few years ago Google made a proposal for a new HTTP compression method, called SDCH (SanDwiCH). The idea behind the method is to create a dictionary of long strings that appear throughout many pages of the same domain (or popular search results).
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My favorite bug: segfaults in Java
Update: Two years later, I wrote a more detailed version of this article: My favorite bug: segfaults in Java (redux) .