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Briefly, Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a computer operating system developed by the original UNIX design team. After decades of work on Research UNIX in the late 80's, the team decided to write a new operating system from scratch, Plan 9 was finally released in 1992, and a few years later they released yet another…
Building Brainf∗ck interpreter for the 21 century, with all the best systems design practices in mind. Think of Brainf∗ck-as-a-service cloud solution!
If you're on a version of Windows 11 that is build 22000 or greater, you can ...
It's common knowledge that Rust code is slow to compile. But I have a strong gut feeling that most Rust code out there compiles much slower than it could.
eBPF Service Mesh - How we can build an eBPF-based service mesh in the kernel to replace the complex sidecar model
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
In 2019, to meet growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.
Ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a terminal-based disk usage analyzer for Linux and other POSIX-y systems, (formerly) written in C and available in the package repositories of most distributions.
It’s been almost a year that Keivan Beigi shut down the AppGet project in response to shenanigans by the Windows App Model team. Microsoft…
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A whirlwind tour through the bucket-load of fail that is Urbit.
Ethernet rules everything around us, a large proportion of our systems communicate to each other with ethernet somewhere in the line. And the fast pace race to the bottom for embedded systems means that almost all network equipment is smart to some degree these days.
DNS "propagation" is actually caches expiring
Some new minor leap second drama is coming up, and for once we can
Differential dataflow is a library that lets you write simple dataflow programs and a) then runs them in parallel and b) efficiently updates the outputs when new inputs arrive. Compared to competition like spark and kafka streams , it can handle more complex computations and provides dramatically better throughput and…
This blog takes a deep dive into the hows and whys of time series databases—and why Honeycomb couldn't be limited to a TSDB implementation.
Update: As of Sunday morn...
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
This is my main computer, a Thinkpad T410 with a 1st generation Intel Core i5 and 8 GB of RAM. It runs Arch Linux with Xfce.
I decided to try running Mezzano on real hardware. I figured my Librebooted ThinkPads would be good targets, since, thanks to Coreboot and the Linux kernel, I have reference source code for all the hardware.
That standard image that explains the difference between on-premises, IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS in the cloud? You know what, it is hugely misleading. Here is the real deal.
BGP is the glue between all of the thousands of border routers that make up the internet (you can find this post (battleships) and this post (EvE) as a crash course on how BGP works).
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.
Instructions for booting a PDP-11/34 with RT-11 from a RK05
The modern Linux distros owe their existence to those early releases, back in 1992.
The P cores in the M1 Pro/Max CPU are managed in two groups of four, sparing load on the second group, and distributing it unevenly within each group. Its two E cores outperform the four in the M1 …
