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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 2,560 posts.
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Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch
Pizlix is LFS (Linux From Scratch) 12.2 with some added components, where userland is compiled with Fil-C. This means you get the most memory safe Linux-like OS currently available.
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Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish
Previously, I said that TinyKVM runs regular Linux ELFs and I use this to test my programs on the terminal like a regular program before I load them in Varnish.
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Coreboot 4.11
The coreboot project is proud to announce to have released coreboot 4.11. This release cycle was a bit shorter to get closer to our regular schedule of releasing in spring and autumn. Since 4.10 there were 1630 new commits by over 130 developers. Of these, about 30 contributed to coreboot for the
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NetBSD 9.1
After a small delay * , the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.1 , the first feature and stability maintenance release of the netbsd-9 stable branch.
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Project Silk
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang's personal blog. For the past few months, I've been working on Project Silk which improves smoothness across ...
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Faster DISTINCT queries on PostgreSQL
Learn common performance pitfalls and discover techniques to optimize your DISTINCT PostgreSQL queries. Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.
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Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is…
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Chromium Security: Site Isolation
Site Isolation is a security feature in Chrome that offers additional protection against some types of security bugs. It uses Chrome's sandbox to make it harder for untrustworthy websites to access or steal information from your accounts on other websites.
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The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix (2015)
If you have been paying attention on Twitter recently, you have likely seen some increasing numbers regarding the number of simultaneous connections the Phoenix web framework can handle. This post documents some of the techniques used to perform the benchmarks.
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The Systemd Chronicles
There is a menace which is spreading like a disease throughout the Linux world, it is called systemd .
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C500k in Action at Urban Airship
Explore the Airship blog for insights on mobile marketing, cross-channel messaging, personalization, customer engagement, and CX best practices.
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Building a Modern Bank Backend
At Monzo, we’re building a banking system from scratch. Our systems must be available 24x7 no matter what happens, scalable to hundreds of millions of customers around the world, and very extensible. This first post in a series about our platform explains how we’re building systems to meet these demands using modern…
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Webkit - Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme
Just three months ago, the WebKit team announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter.
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FreeBSD 8.1 released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
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