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Directfs is now the default in runsc. This feature gives gVisor’s application kernel (the Sentry) secure direct access to the container filesystem, avoiding expensive round trips to the filesystem gofer. Learn more about this feature in the following blog that was originally posted on Google Open Source Blog .
Usually, SQLite allows at most one writer to proceed concurrently. The BEGIN CONCURRENT enhancement allows multiple writers to process write transactions simultanously if the database is in "wal" or "wal2" mode, although the system still serializes COMMIT commands.
Go 1.21 adds a new port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API
Tycho Andersen
Neon’s serverless driver redirects the PostgreSQL TCP wire protocol over WebSockets. This makes ordinary, fully-functional PostgreSQL connections accessible from new environments — including serverless platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions. A key feature of these environments is that state is not…
Understanding the OpenSSH CVE-2023-25136 high vulnerability. Read our analysis with Proof-of-Concept, learn what's vulnerable, and discover remediations.
Ever dealt with glitches in a SaaS platform where your actions don't seem to sync up? That's often a transaction isolation issue in databases. Lets talk about transaction isolation and how they work in Postgres, so you can write reliable and performant code with minimal headache.
This article explores how terminal emulators function, decoding the process of sending commands to the shell for execution. Unveil the mystery behind what happens when you open a terminal and enter Is.
These extensions expand the x86 instruction set with access to registers and features that improve performance.
A high-level overview of Temporal's new .NET runtime, and some interesting challenges encountered during its development.
A guide to adding Rust to a Java codebase with JNI and the rust-maven-plugin.
For an ABI that probably nobody uses.
Explore the C++ memory model and learn about migrating from x86 to ARM architectures. Enhance your understanding of memory management in C++.
Media over QUIC: Low-latency, high bitrate, mass fan-out is hard. Who knew?
Discover how Amazon Search combines technology and culture to empower its builder teams, ensuring platform resilience through Chaos Engineering.
Transformers have grown deeper and wider, but training them on long sequences remains difficult. The attention layer at their heart is the compute and memory bottleneck: doubling the sequence length would quadruple the runtime and memory requirements.
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC)—a scalable, low-latency garbage collector providing sub-millisecond max pause times—continues to evolve. This session will review the design goals behind ZGC and provide a look into the impact of the upcoming support for multiple generations. It will also present general guidance on…
Libreboot – Libreboot 20230319 released!
Hello everyone! It has been nearly three years since I last wrote to this blog. Fortunately, that does not mean Wayfire’s development has stopped! Quite the opposite, in fact I am happy to announce the release of Wayfire 0.8.0. There have been many changes and plugin API breakages since the Wayfire 0.7.x series, so I…
Over the past year, the MORSE team has been working in collaboration with the Windows Print team to modernize the Windows Print System. This new design,...
Libreboot – Libreboot 20230423 released!
TL;DR – Get Engaged! Contact us to learn how to become part of the Eclipse ThreadX Interest Group Contribute to the project and join the ThreadX developer mailing list Stay connected by joini…
Render scaled its Knative infrastructure to handle 100k+ web apps, optimizing Kubernetes for free-tier services and reducing CPU usage to improve network performance.
.NET 8 includes significant improvements to the Hardware Intrinsics feature.
