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Showdown: MySQL 8 vs. PostgreSQL 10
Now that MySQL 8 and PostgreSQL 10 are out, it's a good time to revisit how the two major open source relational databases compete against each other. Before these versions, the general perception has been that while Postgres is superior in feature sets and its pedigree, MySQL is more battle
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Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth
Unum builds the Search, Storage, and Networking engines powering the modern data stack. Deployed on 100M+ devices, our technology serves DBMS unicorns and frontier AI labs.
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Brutal OS reached milestone 4
The Year of the Brutal Desktop
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Message Oriented Programming
Designing around the messages, rather than the objects, brought my whole system into focus. If modules communicate by passing around self-contained textual data, or a simple structured format like JSON, they impose fewer assumptions on each other.
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Tcpls: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS
Guest Post: TCPLS takes advantage of decades of performance optimizations made to TCP and has also a few other tricks up its sleeves.
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Docker on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace
Discover how OpenTelemetry tracing and Coralogix analysis resolve latency issues, proving observability's role in enhancing system performance and reliability.
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The next operating system: building an OS for hundreds, thousands of cores
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
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Pocket Watch: Verifying Exabytes of Data
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.
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Breaking the Chain
Posted by James Forshaw, Wielder of Bolt Cutters.Much as we’d like it to be true, it seems ...
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An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Containers and Unikernels: Similar, different, and intertwined
The millisecond compute layer used for sandboxes, headless browsers, CI/builds, functions / Agents / Databases and much more. Instant boot, VM-grade isolation, and millisecond scale-to-zero, so you can ship with superior economics. Deploy on-prem, BYOC or on dedicated hosts — you own the entire stack.
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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to…
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How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (2010)
It's easy to append bytes to the end of a file: Just open it for writing, seek to the end, and start writing. It's also easy to delete bytes from the end
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Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration considered harmful
The 3 - d acceleration feature of VirtualBox has had a bit of a rough time this year . One could argue that technically this component might not be considered attack surface in VirtualBox, due to the big warning put out in the documentation recommending against its use (emphasis mine):
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What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?
A comparative study of processor architectures.
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New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for testing
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Jurassic Cloud
We live in an age of rapid innovation; Every year, there is a new iPhone, three new crypto currencies, five new AWS services, and a hundred new JavaScript frameworks. We have been conditioned to expect new shiny things, to the point where many people equate “new” with “better” .
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The Consul outage that never happened
Sometimes a good plan is the best tool for the job.
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Why did we take reddit down for 71 minutes?
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Rediscovering Transaction Processing from History and First Principles
In July 2020, I stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing.