Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less…
Twenty tips addressing the basics of ballroom etiquette for single Victorian gentlemen.
Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and everything. That give them some interesting characteristics. First, they are the mos…
Uber has a new CEO, and the reason he is a great choice explain why the Uber job is still an attractive one.
Debian Stretch stable includes the nftables framework, ready to use.Created by the Netfilter project itself, nftables is the firewalling toolthat replaces th...
Since I just committed the last pending patch to improve hash indexes to PostgreSQL 11, and since most of the improvements to hash indexes w...
AdamW on Linux and more
Looking back at my year of Rust. Part reflection, part waymark.
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I’ll cover the post/blog, and then I’d like to counter some misconceptions. While part of me thinks “I must’ve been very unclear to have so many people misunderstand”, I also saw how many people commented without bothering to read, so really there’s a limit to how much self-flagellation will happen.
Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back
Many beginning Python users are wondering with which version of Python they should start. My answer to this question is usually something along the lines…
Creating the ultimate Linux on the desktop experience for everything in containers.
Any regulation, including those around net neutrality, should be put to a cost-benefit analysis. In this case regulation advocates come up short.
Your device’s MAC address can be used to track you across the WiFi networks you connect to. That data can be shared and sold, and often identifies you as an individual. It’s possible to limit this tracking by using pseudo-random MAC addresses.
In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and…
You and your friend have watches which are synchronized to the second, and the proctors are used to him often finishing exams quickly and won't be suspicious if he leaves early. What is the largest value N such that you can guarantee that you answer at least N out of the 23 questions correctly?
