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Cryptocurrency Evolution
Bitcoin has already undergone several forks. A fork defines a moment in time when a specific digital currency gets split into two different currencies. A couple months ago, a Bitcoin fork created Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Another fork just created Bitcoin Gold last week. Segwit 2x will follow next month.
16 Years with IPv6
Torbjörn Eklöv, Co-Founder and Owner of Interlan, was an early adopter of IPv6. He shares the benefits of IPv6 adoption and offers advice to anyone who wants to enable IPv6 in their network with a static configuration from an ISP.
Making More Outside The App Store
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Reasonably Secure Computing in the Decentralized World
Joanna Rutkowska recently gave a presentation titled “Reasonably Secure Computing in the Decentralized World (An Operating System Architect’s Perspective)” at a public event hosted by The Golem Project in Berlin, Germany called “Golem and Friends: Data, Security, Scaling and More….” The...
Lead Bullets (2011)
Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight. —Public Enemy (sampled from Thomas Todd), Fight the Power Early in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape, we faced a...
Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) continues to rapidly expand our global footprint, and we’re excited to announce the availability of our latest cloud region: Northern Virginia.
PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 9.6.2, 9.5.6, …
California Legislature Sells Out Our Data to ISPs
In the dead of night, the California Legislature shelved legislation that would have protected every Internet user in the state from having their data collected and sold by ISPs without their permission. By failing to pass A.B. 375, the legislature demonstrated that they put the profits of Verizon...
Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js
Time-traveling in the execution history of a program during debugging enables a developer to precisely track and understand the sequence of statements and program values leading to an error. To provide this functionality to real world developers, we embarked on a two year journey to create a production quality…
Segment Open Fellowship
Twilio is always looking for ways to assist and contribute to open source. See our current open source projects and learn how you can get involved.
Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Sending Data
This post discusses monitoring and tuning the Linux networking stack in great detail with the focus on sending data.
Statement concerning the arrest of Dmitry Bogatov
[09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.10 released [09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.3 released [07 Oct 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.2 released [12 Aug 2017] DebConf17 closes in Montreal and DebConf18 dates announced [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.1 released [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.9 released [18 Jun 2017] Debian…
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
Late last year I told you about our plans to add PostgreSQL compatibility to Amazon Aurora. We launched the private beta shortly after that announcement, and followed it up earlier this year with an open preview. We’ve received lots of great feedback during the beta and the preview and have done our best to make […]
Linux Runs All of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Linux runs all of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers
Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year
Webpack’s Sean Larkin on growing the project’s budget with crowdfunding, sponsorships, grants, partnerships… and pure love.
Blocking Top-Level Navigations to Data URLs for Firefox 58
End users rely on the address bar of a web browser to identify what web page they are on. However, most end users are not aware of the concept of ...
Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
‘Instantly rechargeable’ battery could change the future of electric automobiles
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