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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 121 posts.
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Understanding the code inside Tornado, the asynchronous web server
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Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?
Most people have an inkling of what the load averages mean: the three numbers represent averages over progressively longer periods of time (one, five, and fifteen-minute averages), and that lower numbers are better. Higher numbers represent a problem or an overloaded machine.
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Just fixed a 20-year-old bug…
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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A Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs
A portfolio of HPC tools help data scientists, researchers, and developers efficiently build cross-architecture applications.
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Insufficiently known Posix shell features
It's that time of year again apparently. Rather than fill in the template for you this time, I'll just give you the general outline of what...
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PyPy - We need Software Transactional Memory
Hi all. Here is (an extract of) a short summary paper about my current position on Software Transactional Memory as a general tool in the ...
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YouTube Videos Now Served in WebM
The world of online video is incredibly complex and dynamic. Yet, our goal is to ensure that nothing stands between you and the great content you’ve always enjoyed. We’ll continue to invest in new video technology that improves the experiences for all users, builds a better infrastructure for online video, leads to…
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How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server
Bad news: that page is gone. We try to keep our site as accurate and up-to-date as possible so that if you’re reading advice here, you can rely on it. That means from time to time, we decide that a page isn’t a great reference anymore, and the work to update it is beyond what […]
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The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users
Last month Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft announced new requirements for manufacturers wanting to ship Windows 8 systems, including a feature called “Secure Boot”. Canonical, together with Red Hat, today publishes a white paper highlighting the implications of these requirements for users and manufacturers. The paper…
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How to DOS a developer
So you think your favourite FOSS project is moving too fast? Easy, just DOS the developers. Here's a few tips on how to achieve this: On IR...
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Assault by GC
TL;DR; We had performance spikes, which we eased with some insane use of struct s. History For a while now, we had been seeing a probl...
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All about 64-bit programming in one place
Access technologies that use data for modern code, machine learning, big data, analytics, networking, storage, servers, cloud, and more.
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Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
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