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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 190 posts.
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Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
Adobe Flash Player End of Life general information
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Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
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Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3
PostgreSQL is a major open-source relational database with a 23-year history and a broad range of features. While Jepsen’s work has traditionally focused on distributed systems, our tooling is readily applicable to traditional, single-node databases. In this report, we present the results of applying Jepsen’s…
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Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
At the time of this article, Kubernetes is about six years old , and over the last two years, it has risen in popularity to consistently be one of the most loved platforms . This year, it comes in as the number three most loved platform . If you haven’t heard about Kubernetes yet, it’s a platform that allows you to…
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How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
ScyllaDB’s Glauber Costa explains how two new APIs, io_uring and eBPF, are changing the fundamental nature of Linux programming.
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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. We published a…
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Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
2020-05-26: MongoDB identified a bug in the transaction retry mechanism which they believe was responsible for the anomalies observed in this report; a patch is scheduled for 4.2.8.
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The Case of the Extra 40ms
By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering
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An introduction to RabbitMQ
What is RabbitMQ? Find out about this open-source message broker in our introduction to the powerful Message Queue tech.
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Flow browser passes the Acid tests
Ekioh's multithreaded, parallel, Flow browser passes all three Acid tests.
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
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SQLite Is Serverless
Most SQL database engines are implemented as a separate server process. Programs that want to access the database communicate with the server using some kind of interprocess communication (typically TCP/IP) to send requests to the server and to receive back results. SQLite does not work this way. With SQLite, the…
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Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
The Google Cloud Console UI is a large JavaScript application. This article investigates how it could be sped up.
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Speeding up Linux disk encryption
Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!
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Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems
The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems . Our next major project is to prevent such bugs at source.
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3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust
How we chose the Rust programming language to advance the state-of-the-art in real-time communication
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We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
The history of defect tracking databases in Windows.
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Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
Today we are expanding Fuchsia’s open source model to welcome contributions from the public.
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Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
QUIC is a new networking transport protocol that combines the features of TCP, TLS, and more. HTTP/3 is the latest version of HTTP, the prot...
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Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
After almost 2 years since R1/beta1, Haiku R1/beta2 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just download …
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Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system
A look at the new Fuchsia Operating System.
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A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. As mentioned here, we are giving Windows Insiders in
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Xfce 4.16
Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are happy to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.16, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.14.