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In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in Amazon Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from Amazon until at least June 30, 2023. We are collaborating and…
In two weeks since open sourcing FoundationDB , we’ve had an outpouring of interest.
MIT researchers have developed the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades. The more-efficient memory-management scheme — nicknamed Tardis for its time-saving properties — could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
With the latest upgrades to PostgreSQL the fsync failure had been fixed. Avinash Vallarapu takes a look at why this issue might cause problems.
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
In April of this year, FreeBSD patched a 13-year-old heap overflow in the Wi-Fi stack that could allow network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of FreeBSD Kernel. This bug was originally reported to the ZDI program by a researcher known as m00nbsd and patched in
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
A blog about the process of writing Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) programs and what’s going on under the hood at the kernel-level.
Users spend a large proportion of their online time on mobile devices, and a significant fraction of the rest is users on untethered laptop computers.
Terraform state is a distributed systems problem masquerading as file storage. Graph state fixes the bottlenecks.
Today, I am announcing mach/glfw: Ziggified GLFW bindings with 100% API coverage, zero-fuss installation, cross compilation, and more.
Oh look what you just made there.
ZFS has been making headlines lately, so it seems like the right time to talk about the longstanding relationship between FreeBSD and ZFS. ...
I have a super power. I want to share it in this blog post so that you, my dear reader, also have it!
This blog post outlines how CockroachDB executes queries and shares Cockroach Labs' vision for future work on distributed processing.
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/12 branch.
How are low-level vulnerabilities exploited and detected in the modern age? This expert guide walks you through the ins and outs of eBPF and Kernel security.
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich
Easily migrate from Linux to FreeBSD. Explore key differences, insights, and useful tricks to adapt seamlessly between the two systems.
Learn how the engineering team at Asana rewrote the Asana app to improve app performance and speed from an in-depth, technical perspective.
The rationale and transition period to moving to the new “core:os”
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […]
Story from the development of the Multics operating system. Unix, our famous child.
