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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 211 posts.
In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork […]
AWS announced new servers with Arm-powered Graviton2 processors. How do they stack up vs. x86-powered instances, and is Arm ready for server domination?
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...
Tracking financial transactions at scale
Here is an outline of some of architectural issues addressed as we build YugabyteDB, our high-performance distributed SQL database.
Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project ZeroTL;DRA locking bug in the XNU virtual memory subsystem all...
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors…
PyPy for low-latency systems Recently I have merged the gc-disable branch, introducing a couple of features which are useful when you need...
Canonical log lines are a lightweight, flexible, and technology-agnostic technique for observability that are powerful and easy to implement.
The latest tutorials, best practices, insights and customer stories on the Lob APIs, direct mail, and address verification.
We're thrilled to be so invested in QUIC, a new transport protocol that is more responsive, secure, and flexible than what the internet uses today. Learn why, straight from our very own Jana Iyengar, one of the editors of the core document.
Building a 4-node cluster for experimenting with the distributed operating system.
On 2019-07-10, the Stripe API was severely degraded. Two different database bugs and a configuration change caused a cascading failure over several critical services. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
It's not beyond possibility to set up MySQL to achieve 100,000 concurrent connections if you balance network config and use thread pools. By Vadim Tkachenko
Performance metrics are surprisingly challenging to get right. Here we share how to create metrics that are accurate, precise, and useful!
