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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 164 posts.
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Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs
Amazon produces and delivers to customers world-class entertainment via Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, MGM+, Amazon Music, Audible, Wondery, Amazon Games, and Twitch. Amazon’s entertainment properties empower millions of customers around the world to enjoy a massive selection of the very best in…
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We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…
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Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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A Heisenbug lurking in async Python
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.
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SUSE is forking RHEL
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
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Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild
Research beyond the obvious
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Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
After successful recommissioning in autumn 2022, the Greifswald nuclear fusion experiment has surpassed an important target.
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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
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The weird world of Windows file paths
File system paths on Windows are stranger than you might think. On any Unix-derived system, a path is an admirably simple thing: if it starts with a /, it’s a path. Not so on Windows, which serves up a bewildering variety of schemes for composing a path.
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PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
PostgreSQL, a powerful open-source object-relational database system, has been lauded for its robustness, functionality, and flexibility. However, it is not without its challenges – one of which is the notorious VACUUM process. However, the dawn of a new era is upon us with OrioleDB, a novel engine designed for…
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We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Firecracker is not the best choice for all kinds of workloads.
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We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
In August 2022, Dan Walsh (one of the authors of this article) moved out of his role as container runtimes architect at Red Hat to architect for the Red Hat ...
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Simple Unix Chat
The title oversells the content a bit 1 1: Some called it disingenous dickish clickbait. I don't disagree ;-) :
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Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
Companies see huge server savings with Elixir.
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Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a way to increase redundancy and limit the blast radius of site failures. In pursuit of these goals, we have migrated the most critical user-facing services at Slack from a monolithic to a cell-based…
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Zero downtime Postgres upgrades
How we upgraded from Postgres 11.9 to 15.3 with zero downtime
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Jepsen: MySQL 8.0.34
MySQL needs little introduction. Over the last 28 years it has become one of the most widely deployed SQL databases. MySQL is primarily used for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, but is also deployed as a part of OLAP and queuing systems.
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Using io_uring for network I/O
Discover io_uring, an async I/O API for Linux that can potentially benefit networking, and learn how to integrate it into your applications and I/O libraries.
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FreeBSD on Firecracker
A large amount of fantastic open source software originates from “scratching an itch”. Such was the case with Firecracker . In 2014, Amazon launched AWS Lambda as a “serverless” compute platform: Users can provide a function — say, ten lines of Python code — and Lambda provides all of the infrastructure between an…
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Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
You can build, test, and run the Android support for RISC-V on your own machine.
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How does database sharding work?
Learn what database sharding is, how sharding works, and some common sharding frameworks and tools.
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Gentoo goes Binary
News and information from Gentoo Linux
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Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
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Gossip Glomers: Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges
Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges
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Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale
By Phil Norman Code at Scale At Google, tens of thousands of software engineers contribute to a multi-billion-line mono-repository . This re...
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Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
Web browsing is a pervasive part of modern life, and the quality of the experience directly affects the quality of your day. When your tasks are disrupted