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A distributed systems reading list
An old document I surfaced with my quick tour of distributed systems theory fundamentals
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Lessons from a fountain pen addict
(Enjoy the blog? Please consider donating – there’s a PayPal button at the top right of the site!) Over the past several years of spending far too much time and money on stationery, I’ve learned a thing or two — about mistakes I make over and over, about what I like and why, and what […]
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Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
Bard is now known as Gemini, with a mobile app and an Advanced experience that gives you access to our most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0.
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How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
What is QUIC protocol and how does it work ?
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Context Control in Go
Best practices for handling context plumbing in Go
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Lamport Clocks
Last weekend I wanted to get some inspiration to write some TLA+ spec and I got my hands back on the paper Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events...
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Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta
While deploying Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta, we’ve developed a simplified version of the protocol (Simple Precision Time Protocol – SPTP), that can offer the same level of clock syn…
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When "letting it crash" is not enough
This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.
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As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production
America: The Ultimate Crammer
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Localllm lets you develop gen AI apps on local CPUs
Want to use open-source LLM models from Hugging Face on your local development environment? With localllm and Cloud Workstations, you can.
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A search engine in 80 lines of Python
In this post I explain how I built a search engine from scratch using python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs I follow.
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How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
I bought the camera from a profile that was created in 2017. They had some other things for sale, too. The account looked legit — lots of family photos and comments from family members.
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How to hire low experience, high potential people
Finding diamonds in the rough
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Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign…
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“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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ElixirNitpicks
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark
The Danish DPA issues an injunction in the Chromebook case
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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not pro -monopoly – they're just realists who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the…
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Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres
There's no official support for system-versioned tables in Postgres yet, and the temporal extensions aren't supported on Azure/AWS/GCP. Let's implement it ourselves with 3 triggers and an index.
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jQuery v4.0 Beta
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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The power of two random choices
In many large-scale web services, multiple layers of stateless and stateful services are seperated by load balancers. Load balancing can be done with dedicated hardware, with dedicated software load balancers, using DNS trickery or through a load-balancing mechanism in the client. In large systems, the resources and…
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Go 1.22
The latest Go release, version 1.22, arrives six months after Go 1.21 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe
IBM announced IBM® LinuxONE 4 Express, extending the latest performance, security and AI capabilities of LinuxONE to small and medium sized businesses and within new data center environments.
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Demystifying GPU compute architectures
Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
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BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained
This article explains how BuildKit works in depth, why it's faster than Docker's previous build engine, and what it looks like under the hood.