Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 498 posts.
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database, loosely patterned after Google Spanner and designed for semi-synchronous networks. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol , supports a reasonable dialect of SQL , and combines replication for durability with transparent scale-out sharding for large tables. Its most…
We just announced the release of TimescaleDB, a new open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, now available on GitHub.
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How we took eggs out of the S3 basket.
Jeff Atwood, perhaps the most widely read programming blogger, has a post that makes a case against using ECC memory . My read is that his major points are:
This is a pseudo-transcript for a talk on branch prediction given at Two Sigma on 8/22/2017 to kick off "localhost", a talk series organized by RC .
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
Typically, if you're designing a storage system - such as a filesystem, or a database - one of your major concerns is how to store the data on disk. You have to take care of allocating space for the objects to be stored, as well as storing the indexing data; you have to worry about what happens when you want to extend…
Optimize virtual memory management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Learn how to configure swap for optimal performance
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The Fedora Project proudly announces the release of Fedora 27, its latest leading-edge operating system. Download it free and experience it today.
Now that the CoreCLR is open-source we can do fun things, for instance find out if it’s possible to add new IL (Intermediate Language) instruction to the runtime.
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
The log is a totally-ordered, append-only data structure. It’s a powerful yet simple abstraction—a sequence of immutable events. It’s something that programmers have been using for a very long time, perhaps without even realizing it because it’s so simple. Whether it’s application logs, system logs, or access logs…
We're REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too ;) On May 11th 2017, during Microsoft's Build conference keynote, Terry
Some notes on the different patterns that may be present when people talk about event-driven architectures.
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway?* Such as when changing directory, or opening a file. I have an idea: Suicide Linux. Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter cr...
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With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language.
Digging up some useful and not so popular commands in Linux
