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Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
The first open-source release of GPU kernel modules for the Linux community helps improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security.
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Tales of the M1 GPU
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Postgres WASM
We're open sourcing postgres-wasm, a PostgresQL server that runs inside a browser, with our friends at Snaplet.
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
If you're running Firefox on macOS you might have noticed that its responsiveness has improved significantly in version 103.
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SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)
Certain Solid State Drive (SSD) models will experience data loss.
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Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers
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Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees
Let's open a hex editor and see what this thing is made of
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A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.
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Asahi Linux alpha release
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory, thanks to a simple trick.
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How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
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Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software
An interview where we talk about how we use embedded Rust in our coming car projects.
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Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet?
In this blog we'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology
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What chroot taught me about containers
In this article, the author explores the concept of containers and how they are essentially chrooted processes. They walk through the process of bu...
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Wasmtime 1.0
As of today, the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime is now at 1.0! This means that all of us in the Bytecode Alliance agree that it is fully ready to use in production.
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Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
We're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort
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It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
The leap second concept was first introduced in 1972 by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in an attempt to periodically update Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) d…
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The 4th Year of SerenityOS
Well hello friends! Today we celebrate the 4th birthday of SerenityOS, counting from the first commit to the repository, on October 10th, 2018.
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Postgres 15 improves UNIQUE and NULL
Postgres 15 beta 2 was released recently! I enjoy Beta season... reviewing and testing new features is a fun diversion from daily tasks. This post takes a look at an improvement to UNIQUE constraints on columns with NULL values . While the nuances of unique constraints are not as flashy as making sorts faster (that's…
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Prime Video Uses WebAssembly
The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.
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Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla
We've been working on the development of rust-minidump. The first in this two-part series explains what minidumps are and how we made rust-minidump.
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How the SQLite virtual machine works
Let's look at how SQLite parses, optimizes, and compiles every query that it receives.
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Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (2011)
Fan grills are a component in a computer that is often underestimated in terms of their contribution to both system noise and airflow. Most often, grills are chosen based on aesthetics with only a small thought towards performance. In this article, we will be examining nine different grills to determine the effects of…