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Replacing HLS/Dash – Live Mass Fanout with Media over QUIC
Media over QUIC: Low-latency, high bitrate, mass fan-out is hard. Who knew?
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We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon
Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.
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An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs
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Digging for performance gold: finding hidden performance wins
We are fortunate that so many people choose Chrome as their browser to get things done, which is why we are continually investing in making ...
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Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh
Kong 1.0 includes Service Mesh, Mutual TLS, and gRPC support; as well as a Plugin Development Kit.
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DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded
Figuring out how it went missing.
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An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime
Pushpin makes it easy to create HTTP long-polling, HTTP streaming, and WebSocket services using any web stack as the backend. It’s compatible with any framew...
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Recycling memory buffers in Go
This blog post is very old now. You probably don't want to use the techniques described here. GO'S sync.Pool is a better way to go.
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Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code
Helping researchers find 0ld daysPosted by Thomas Dullien, Project ZeroExecutive summarySoftware ...
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NVMM: A full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD
NVMM provides the infrastructure needed for both the kernel driver and the userland emulators.
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Dragon: A distributed graph query engine
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Optimizing Top K in Postgres
How ParadeDB uses principles from search engines to optimize Postgres' Top K performance.
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Beringei: A high-performance time series storage engine
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Just fixed a 20-year-old bug…
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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Inside the Linux boot process (2006)
The open source operating system that runs the world.
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We upgraded an old, 3PB large, Elasticsearch cluster without downtime
Back in 2018, now five years ago, we published a blog post describing our 400+ node Elasticsearch cluster. In that post we brought up an important topic: So far, we have elected to not upgrade the cluster. We would like to, but so far there have been more urgent tasks. How we actually perform the upgrade is undecided…
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Congestion Control Arrives in Tor 0.4.7-stable
Tor has released 0.4.7.7, the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control. Congestion control will result in significant performance improvements in Tor, once Exit relays upgrade. Relay operators: please read!
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Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload
In 2017, the toolbox for making sure your web page loads fast includes everything from minification and asset optimization to caching, CDNs, code splitting and tree shaking. Understanding what goes ...
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Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack
Oxide's approach to emulation, simulation, and tiny versions of big things.
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OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution
OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent distribution and direct descendant of Mandriva Linux
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta
Linux containers, Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, blockchain and too many other technical breakthroughs to list all share a common component - Linux, the same workhorse that has driven mission-critical, production systems for nearly two decades. Today, we’re offering a vision of a Linux foundation to power the…
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How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second
Discover how Amazon Search combines technology and culture to empower its builder teams, ensuring platform resilience through Chaos Engineering.
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A Foolish Consistency: Consul at Fly.io
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.