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Systems & Performance

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

2017
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Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics

At Kolide, part of what we do is build a client-server system that facilitates the management of large, isolated installations of an open-source tool called osquery. While I’ve written and spoken about osquery in the past, in this post I want to focus on how we use Go to solve many of the challenges we face building…

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Jepsen: CockroachDB beta-20160829

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database, loosely patterned after Google Spanner and designed for semi-synchronous networks. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol , supports a reasonable dialect of SQL , and combines replication for durability with transparent scale-out sharding for large tables. Its most…

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Routing & Network Namespaces

Like all Linux network interfaces, WireGuard integrates into the network namespace infrastructure. This means an administrator can have several entirely different networking subsystems and choose which interfaces live in each.