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The ‘Backends for Frontends’ Pattern at SoundCloud
Our friends at SoundCloud embarked on a journey a few years ago that changed their system and moved it from a monolithic Rails application towards an ecosystem of microservices.
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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 301 posts.
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Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf
Yet another proprietary tech titan turns to the free OpenBSD operating system as their source of innovation in the networking and security ...
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When ‘int’ is the new ‘short’
Posted by Mark Brand, Truncator of IntegersThis is going to be a quick post, just describing a pa...
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Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior
Cassandra is a highly-available, linearly-scalable data store, but would it work for the Parse.ly team? Read on for how to avoid common pitfalls when working with this tech!
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New Generation of Intel Graphics for Linux Requires Proprietary Firmware
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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Debug your programs like they're closed source
Debug your programs like they're closed source!
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Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store
Ever wondered how Elasticsearch handles time series metrics? Felix Barnsteiner from stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring
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I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook
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Web App Speed
When Apple originally released the iPhone SDK in 2008, I was extremely excited about it, and immediately started working on multiple different iPhone apps. By 2009, though, I had become so uncomfortable with Apple’s stewardship of its mobile platform that I released the one game that was furthest along, and…
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Improving math performance in glibc
Read the most recent Red Hat Developers blog content. Explore our featured monthly resource as well as our most recently published items.
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Optimized Go gzip/zip packages, 30-50% faster
I have worked on optimizing the standard library deflate function, and I am happy to announce revised gzip/zip packages, that on x64 is about 30-50% faster with slightly improved compression. Project: https://github.com/klauspost/compress All packages are drop-in replacements for the standard libraries, so you can use…
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Considering performance in the small is not “premature optimization”
DISCLAIMER : The following are my own personal opinions and are not shared, sanctioned or endorsed by anybody in particular, especially my employer. Any criticisms expressed herein are of a general nature and are neither inspired by nor directed at any person, entity, or product in particular. Links to other online…
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Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)
When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits.
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Fedora 22 released
We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22, the community-driven and community-built operating system now available in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions. If that’s all you need to hear, jump over to Get Fedora to download — or for current users, run the upgrade tool. In addition to the latest…
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