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Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 235 posts.
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Scaling your API with rate limiters
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Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroIn this blog post we’ll complete our goal of achieving...
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Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop
It’s no secret that hardware selection is one of the biggest hurdles Qubes users face. Finding a computer that is secure, trustworthy, and compatible is more difficult than it should be. In an effort to address the compatibility aspect of that problem, we introduced the Qubes-certified ...
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How Discord Indexes Billions of Messages Using Elasticsearch
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
When Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU) was shipped, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was still far from complete, and was known to have many
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PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem
Discover our incident review with our API and dashboard after the outage on 10th October.
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Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloads
This month, the Google Play team in our London office was hyped to welcome back Anamaria Cotîrlea, a former intern who is now a full-time ...
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CockroachDB beta-20161013
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…
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Building a scalable time-series database on PostgreSQL
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 Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy
How we took eggs out of the S3 basket.
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ReactOS 0.4.6 released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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ReactOS 0.4.4 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Do we really need swap on modern systems?
Optimize virtual memory management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Learn how to configure swap for optimal performance
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Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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Fedora 27 released
The Fedora Project proudly announces the release of Fedora 27, its latest leading-edge operating system. Download it free and experience it today.
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APIs, robustness, and idempotency
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New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
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
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Reverse-Engineering the Intel Management Engine
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Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language.
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I/O Access Methods for Linux
Explore the four different ways to perform disk I/O on Linux and the tradeoffs and what we chose for ScyllaDB to build a high-performing database.
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Online migrations at scale
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Better Random Number Generation for OpenSSL, Libc, and Linux Mainline
中文版 In 2015, AWS introduced s2n, a new open source implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols that protect the privacy and integrity of data moving over a network. s2n was designed to be secure, simple, small, and fast. The project is thriving, and we use it extensively. In February, our CISO Stephen Schmidt shared that…