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Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids
Smart thermostats may be falling into a dumb trap. While these devices save homeowners money, Cornell engineers found they may be prompting unintentional energy spikes on the grid.
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Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.
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How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.
ZFS keeps winning over btrfs on many fronts. Here's a short list that explains exactly how.
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Wind provided 37 per cent of Ireland’s electricity in Q1 2019
Tìm khoản vay tiền nhanh sử dụng CCCD, hồ sơ được hỗ trợ xét duyệt nhanh và chuyển khoản ngay khi đủ điều kiện. Người có nợ xấu vẫn có thể được xem xét tùy hồ sơ và chính sách của từng đối tác tài chính. Vay tiền ngay!
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SRE Teams: Hash
How culture is enabling a 2 people team to help scale the product org of a disrupting fintech.
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How Asus and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work
A couple of years after it happened I'm sharing this story about the intersection of an OS bug, a network hardware quirk, and a global pandemic. A chain…
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SparkFun's migration from MariaDB to PostgreSQL
The devs switch underlying databases for SparkFun.com and somehow, miraculously, the sky stays put firmly up above.
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Leader Election with S3 Conditional Writes
In distributed systems, for instance when scaling out some workload to multiple compute nodes, it is a common requirement to select a leader for performing a given task: only one of the nodes should …
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Announcing workers.dev
We are working really hard to allow you to deploy Workers without having a Cloudflare domain. You will soon be able to deploy your Cloudflare Workers to a subdomain-of-your-choice.workers.dev, which you can go claim now on workers.dev!
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How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework
I joined Dropbox not long after graduating with a Master’s degree in computer science. Aside from an internship, this was my first big-league engineering job. My team had already begun designing a critical internal service that most of our software would use: It would handle asynchronous computing requests behind the…
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Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks
A collection of kernel and userland settings one can change to improve the security and usability of a Linux system. Targeted at Arch, but should work for other distros too.
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Untangling Jenkins
Eliminate secrets sprawl and automate credential rotation across hybrid and multicloud environments with centralized, enterprise-grade secrets management.
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Indexing a billion pages
It’s two years since we launched Mwmbl, the open source, non-profit search engine, on Boxing Day 2021. A good time to take stock of where we are and where we’re going. We’ve indexed over 100 million pages Thanks to our volunteers, who crawl the web using the Firefox extension and command line script, we’re crawling up…
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Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs
Don't pick random subnets to avoid IP address conflicts on foreign networks, use VRFs!
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How not to migrate an email domain
I did the thing! I moved IntroCave.com over to IntroMaker.com. It's still a bit of a work in progress ( some thoughts here ), but I decided to break this out as a separate post.
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Why we built our own background agent
The craft of engineering is rapidly changing. We built our own coding agent to accelerate faster. Inspect is now open to teams outside Ramp through early access.
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Self-Hosting (Almost) All the Way Down [video]
I will demonstrate FPGA-based 64-bit RISC-V computer, capable of booting and running the riscv64 port of Fedora. Using Free/Libre packages available as part of the Fedora repositories, this machine is capable of recompiling not only its own software (e.g., kernel, glibc, gcc), but also its own gateware (i.e., FPGA…
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Spotify's Kafka-Based Event Delivery System
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a small piece of information, an event, is sent to our servers. Event delivery, the process of making sure that all events gets transported safely from clients all over the world to our central processing…
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Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup
Blake Mealey's digital garden.
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Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
Compare real-world RAM consumption of AppImage and Flatpak packages on low-memory Linux hardware. See how each format handles dependencies and…
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VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router)
As a VyOS evangelist, maintainer, and more, I’ve been meaning to write a simple series of “how-to” guides for VyOS for a while. Sure, there are plenty of guides out there, but I think a lot of them fall short in demonstrating WHY you are entering specific commands.