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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…
How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases
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Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.
A query to find out if Postgres is read heavy or write heavy and tips for optimizing Postgres for both read and write workloads.
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
When evaluating networking for a host the focus is typically on latency, throughput or packets per second (pps) to see the maximum load a...
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.5 development cycle
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
New SiFive Performance Family of application processors offers best in class performance, area, and efficiency for a wide variety of markets
Since Brendan Eich wrote the first SpiderMonkey version in 1995, there have been many, many changes to its internal string representation. New string types like ...
Husky is an unbundled, distributed, schemaless, vectorized column store. Here’s how we built it—and why.
We rolled out Go 1.24 and saw a memory regression. Here’s how we dug into system metrics, uncovered a bug in the runtime allocator, and worked with the Go team to help fix it.
A valid difference of opinion.
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Breaking up-to-date Windows 11 BitLocker encryption -- on-device but software-only
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
This series of articles will explore some of my favorite Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 capabilities that are enabled by systemd. Thus, this series assume...
