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Brutal OS reached milestone 4
The Year of the Brutal Desktop
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Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 582 posts.
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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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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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What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus (2019)
What are Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus - a brief overview and usage examples
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Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
Making performant dynamic manual memory management in C feel almost like garbage collection.
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Cloud Computing Without Containers: Hello Isolates
We have a cloud computing platform called Workers. Unlike essentially every other cloud computing platform I know of, it doesn’t use containers or virtual machines. We believe that is the future of Serverless and cloud computing in general, and I’ll try to convince you why.
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Please Use ZFS with ECC Memory (2014)
In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a NAS. I would argue that if you do not use ECC memory, it's reasonable to also forgo on ZFS altogether and use any (legacy) file system that suits your needs.
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Manuals for Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
These manuals describe the architecture and programming environment of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 architectures.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
The Backend Infrastructure team at Discord was hard at work improving the scalability and performance of our core real-time communications infrastructure.