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Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
StripedHyena-7B is an open-source model built beyond the Transformer architecture, matching Llama-2 and Mistral 7B while running faster on long sequences.
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Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 164 posts.
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My Fear of Commitment to the First CPU Core
On this Valentine's Day Weekend I share the heartbreak that caused my fear of commitment to the 1st CPU Core of any socket (not just core 0).
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ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++
Read about why we built a resource-efficient alternative for Zookeeper from scratch in C++, what our next big step with it is, and how you can join the Keeper community.
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Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS ). Thanks to Anton Fonarev for link aggregation.
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Wayland on OpenBSD
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GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available
Introduction In DirectX ❤ Linux - DirectX Developer Blog we wrote about DXCore & D3D12 support on WSLg and described OpenGL & OpenCL support by
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Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications
Why was Mats created, what is the point of using message-based async RPC.
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WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets
Today we are very excited to launch a new initiative that will start shaping the future of WebAssembly on both the browser and the server. WASI was ann...
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Very Long-Term Backup (2008)
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
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Learnings from kCTF VRP's 42 Linux kernel exploits submissions
Tamás Koczka, Security Engineer In 2020 , we integrated kCTF into Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) to support researchers evalu...
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eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation
This blog shares the results of our performance tests creating OpenTelemetry traces with eBPF-based automatic instrumentation vs traditional instrumentation
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Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
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Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (2018)
Explore common Linux virtual network interfaces, including Bridge, Bonded interface, VLAN, VXLAN, MACVLAN, IPVLAN, MACVTAP/IPVTAP, and more. Learn how to create and use them effectively for your
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Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
Today, the Manticore team is thrilled to announce the release of Manticore Search 6.
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory
This year, the YJIT team has been working hard to improve and optimize YJIT. We’re proud to say that the version of YJIT to be included with Ruby 3.3 is leaps and bounds ahead of Ruby 3.2’s. It provides better performance across the board, while also warming up faster and using less memory. The 3.3 release is also…
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The growing pains of database architecture
How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases
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Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? (2022)
MMAP Databases = 💩
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Mashing Enter to bypass full disk encryption with TPM, Clevis dracut and systemd
This vulnerability allows a physically-present attacker to control the full disk encryption unlock process and gain complete access to decrypted content in some cases where a TPM, dracut and Clevis are used.
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Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform
Effortless upstream Linux integration, powerful performance optimization, running AOSP with Mainline and last but not least continued collaboration
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When can two TCP sockets share a local address?
If I navigate to https://blog.cloudflare.com/, my browser will connect to a remote TCP address from the local IP address assigned to my machine, and a randomly chosen local TCP port. What happens if I then decide to head to another site?
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Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale
Discover how Tailscale achieved over 10Gb/s throughput on Linux using advanced UDP segmentation and checksum optimizations. Explore benchmarks, results, and the innovations powering wireguard go's latest performance leap.
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster
Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even faster.
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The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases
Comparison of replication options of time-series databases.
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PostgreSQL 14 Internals
I’m excited to announce that the translation of the “ PostgreSQL 14 Internals ” book is finally complete thanks to the amazing work of Liudmila Mantrova. The final part of the book considers each of the index types in great detail. It explains and demonstrates how access methods, operator classes, and data types work…
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More optimizations in the compiler and JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension
YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting…