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This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code. She wrote:
(Screenshot by someone on Twitter two weeks ago. I can’t find the tweet now — sorry.)
This is a trade-off: you can't represent a leap second, and your time is guaranteed to go backwards. On the other hand, every day has exactly 86,400 seconds, and you don't need a table of all previous and future leap seconds in order to format Unix time as human-preferred hours-minutes-seconds.
One of life's minor annoyances is having to wait on my devices to connect to the network after I wake them from sleep. All too often, I'll open the lid on my …
Solaris 5.11 (virtual: Joyent SmartMachine ) PHP 5.3.6 with PHP - FPM : 4 instances running, 10meg APC cache nginx 0.8.53 Pax 1.0 (my silly self-coded website software… and yes, oops there’s already software with that name ) 120 megs of RAM used Load tested using blitz.io : 9 million+ daily hit capability
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
I needed to list all files in a directory, but ls , find , and os.listdir all hung. This is my story.
There has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I also made a performance claim on the STS list that got me an unusual number of private emails.
C is, today, a unique programming language. Surprisingly few people can really program in C and yet many of us have quite strong opinions about it. Buffer overflows, stack smashing, integer overflows — C has many well publicised flaws, and these terms are often bandied about confidently, even by those unfamiliar with…
Why developers rarely use state machines, seeing them as overkill until it's too late to switch, and what the state_machine gem did for CrowdHired.
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Have you ever been connecting to a new wireless network and seen the following pop-up balloon?
LMAX is a retail financial trading system that can handle that can 6 million orders per second on a single JVM thread. The business logic runs in-memory surrounded by disruptors using event sourcing.
Ten years ago (around the year 2001) I wrote a simple x86 protected-mode OS just to find out how operating systems work. That was really gr...
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