Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 187 posts.

Systems & Performance
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Jepsen: Dgraph 1.0.2

2019-04-10: The long fork test used in this analysis contained a bug which caused it to (in many cases) fail to identify long fork anomalies—though we did find instances of long fork using other tests. We have re-checked Dgraph 1.0.13 with a corrected checker, and its long fork tests still pass.

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UKL: A Unikernel Based on Linux

Unikernels are customized, single address space bootable images composed of an application and the required bare-minimum kernel functionality. Today’s unikernels have demonstrated substantial performance and security advantages over monolithic and microkernels, but none have yet achieved widespread adoption. The…