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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 136 posts.

2015
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Snappy Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi 2

“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu…

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Fedora 23 Beta released

The Fedora 23 Beta is here, right on schedule for our planned October final release! Want to help make Fedora 23 be the best release ever, or just want to get a sneak peek? Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site and give it a whirl: Get Fedora 23 Beta Workstation — a reliable, user-friendly, […]

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Project Silk

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang's personal blog. For the past few months, I've been working on Project Silk which improves smoothness across ...

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Understanding Container Reuse in AWS Lambda

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda functions execute in a container (sandbox) that isolates them from other functions and provides the resources, such as memory, specified in the function’s configuration. In this article we discuss how Lambda creates and reuses these sandboxes, and the impact of those policies on the…