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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Systems & Performance
The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 90 posts.
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A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
Hi all! I'm starting a new article series here. This one is going to be about Unix utilities that you should know about. The articles will discuss one Unix program at a time. I'll try to write a good introduction to the tool and give as many examples as I can think of. The first post in this series is going to be…
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Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step
Is your web server using using gzip encoding ? Surprisingly, many are not. I just wrote a little script to fetch the 30 external links off n...
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On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
It’s pretty clear to computer science geeks that Directed Edge is supposed to be doing groovy things with graphs. In fact our recommendation engine, and some of the things that are unique about our approach to recommendations, are built on our super-fast graph database. When we went live yesterday with the latest…
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How to Write Fast Code
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store
It took Ruby some time to go from an infant research project by Matz to a language we've all come to know so well. Now, another Japanese developer ( Mikio Hirabayashi ) has all the potential to repeat this cycle with his new database project: Tokyo Cabinet . Developed and sponsored by Mixi Inc . (Japanese Facebook)…
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Anatomy of a Program in Memory
Memory management is the heart of operating systems; it is crucial for both programming and system administration. In the next few posts I'll cover memory with an eye towards practical aspects, but wi
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Linux System Administration Basics
This guide covers almost everything you wanted to know about Linux system administration but were afraid to ask about.
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Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic
Writings on artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, and the tech industry.
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Reddit decommissions its last Y Combinator funded server
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports
Back when I started programming computers came with circuit diagrams and listings of their firmware. The early machines I used like the Sha...
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