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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Create DWARF debug information with the LIEF Extended DWARF editor and share reverse-engineered types and functions between Binary Ninja and Ghidra plugins.
A stopwatch and a race against time.
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
IBM announced IBM z/OS V2.5, the next-generation operating system (OS) for IBM Z, designed to accelerate client adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and drive application modernization projects.
In this technical deep dive, we take a look at the columnar engine that delivers industry leading query performance for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.
As you can see from my EC2 Instance History post, we add new instance types on a regular and frequent basis. Driven by increasingly powerful processors and designed to address an ever-widening set of use cases, the size and diversity of this list reflects the equally diverse group of EC2 customers! Near the bottom of…
I’d like to give you an update on the EC2 Maintenance announcement that I posted last week. Late yesterday (September 30th), we completed a reboot of less than 10% of the EC2 fleet to protect you from any security risks associated with the Xen Security Advisory (XSA-108). This Xen Security Advisory was embargoed until…
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Learn how queues make horizontal scaling, scheduling, and flow control easier in cloud systems, and how to make them durable and observable.
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Slitter is Backtrace’s deliberately middle-of-the-road thread-caching slab allocator, with explicit allocation class tags (rather than derived from the object’s size class). It’s mostly written in Rust, and we use it in our C backend server. Slitter’s design is about as standard as it gets: we hope to dedicate the…
How to design a lock-free data structure? A detective story for curious developers.
Let’s talk about the stream. The SoundCloud stream represents stuff that’s relevant to you primarily via your social graph, arranged in time order, newest-first. The atom of that data model, an event, is a simple enough thing. Timestamp User who did the thing Identifier of the thing that was done For example, At…
This guide covers almost everything you wanted to know about Linux system administration but were afraid to ask about.
The default filesystem will be BTRFS for Fedora 33 and onwards. Read more here about what that means for the Fedora community.
Since the launch of Chrome in 2008, speed has been one of the 4 core principles that shape the work we do to deliver a highly performant br...
Kubernetes was not originally intended for stateful applications. Kubernetes StatefulSets are Kubernetes' answer to storage-centric workloads.
We at Canonical have conducted a legal review, including discussion with the industry’s leading software freedom legal counsel, of the licenses that apply to the Linux kernel and to ZFS.And in doing so, we have concluded that we are acting within the r […]
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At the end of 2011, Google released version 4.0 of its Android operating system for smartphones. For the first time, Android smartphone owners were supplied with a disk encryption feature that…
