91
Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM
This domain name is available, own it today. Affordable payment options. Fast and professional service.
Topics /
Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 278 posts.
92
Warp, a fast preprocessor for C and C++
Visit the post for more.
93
BPF: The Forgotten Bytecode
Every once in a while I run into an obscure computer technology that is a hidden gem, which over the years has become mostly forgotten. This is exactly how I feel about the tcpdump tool and its kernel counterpart the packet filter interface.
94
Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox
Since Brendan Eich wrote the first SpiderMonkey version in 1995, there have been many, many changes to its internal string representation. New string types like ...
95
96
HFS+ Bit Rot
HFS+ is a terribly old filesystem with serious flaws. I sincerely hope that Apple comes with an update of the filesystem for WWDC 2015. After all they have been working on Swift for the past 4 years and we have just learned about it last week. HFS+ is seriously old HFS+ was released in 1998, in the era of Mac OS…
97
98
99
New optimizations for X86 in upcoming GCC 5.0
Find software and development products, explore tools and technologies, connect with other developers and more. Sign up to manage your products.
100
101
102
Deis v1.0 – Production Ready
Discover Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for secure, scalable containerized app deployment and management with fast delivery on managed Kubernetes clusters.
103
104
The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern
TL:DR Successive, well intentioned, changes to architecture and technology throughout the lifetime of an application can lead to a fragmente...
105
106
Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
107
IPv6 privacy addresses crashed the MIT CSAIL network
A few hours ago, I sent the following “dear colleagues” email (lightly edited to remove some private details) to all my users at work: This has been a very trying week. For those of you…
108
LibreSSL's PRNG is Unsafe on Linux
The first version of LibreSSL portable, 2.0.0, was released a few days ago (followed soon after by 2.0.1 ). Despite the 2.0.x version numbers, these are only preview releases and shouldn't be used in production yet, but have been released to solicit testing and feedback. After testing and examining the codebase, my…
109
110
Debian is switching back to GLIBC
Five years ago Debian and most derivatives switched from the standard GNU C Library (GLIBC) to the Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC). Debian is now about to...
111
How we’ve made Raptor fast
Ruby web server up to 4x faster than Unicorn, up to 2x faster than Puma and Torquebox.
112
113
Will It Optimize? (2010)
See how well you know (or can anticipate) gcc's optimizer. For each question, the left box contains some code, while the right box contains code that purports to do the same thing, but that illustrates a particular optimization. Will gcc apply that optimization? Put another way, will the code on the left be as fast as…
114
115
TCP is harder than it looks
It's easy to write a TCP stack that works with most traffic. It's harder to write one that interoperates properly with every strange or buggy device that's out there.
116
Call me maybe: etcd and Consul
In the previous post, we discovered the potential for data loss in RabbitMQ clusters . In this oft-requested installation of the Jepsen series, we’ll look at etcd : a new contender in the CP coordination service arena. We’ll also discuss Consul ’s findings with Jepsen.
117
What Are Your GCC Flags?
What Are Your GCC Flags ? 09 March 2014 Say What ? Your GCC build...
118
History of Apache Storm and Lessons Learned
Apache Storm recently became a top-level project , marking a huge milestone for the project and fo...
119
120
