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Systems & Performance

The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 235 posts.

2017
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Searching for the killer app of unikernels

When a radically different technology comes along it usually takes time before we figure out how to apply it. When we had steam engines running factories there was one engine in each factory with a giant driveshaft running through the whole factory. When the electric engine came along people started replacing the…

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Awk for multimedia

(… and for system graphics, games and other interactive applications but that would make the title just a bit too long…) Many of the articles here have focused on the use of Arcan as a …

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The HDFS Juggernaut

There's been much focus on MongoDB, Elastic and Redis in terms of data exposure on the Internet due to their general popularity in the developer community. However, in terms of data volume it turns out that HDFS is the real juggernaut. To give you a better idea here's a quick

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Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service

Today we’re launching Amazon Time Sync Service, a time synchronization service delivered over Network Time Protocol (NTP) which uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each region to deliver a highly accurate reference clock. This service is provided at no additional charge and is…

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The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop

Beyond its status as a world leader in hackathon organization, BeMyApp has been supporting its customers' digital transformation for 10 years. We are committed to accelerating the development of their innovations by animating internal and external communities around the world, through in-person, virtual, or hybrid…