Which Countries Have the Most Popular Top-Level Domains in the World?
The team at Nominus.com has created a comprehensive guide to the most powerful top-level domains around the world, which can provide fascinating insights such as which countries have the most expansive internet presence, and which domains may be the most influential for your needs.
Consistency without Clocks: The Fauna Distributed Transaction Protocol
Transactions are hard. Distributed transactions are harder. Distributed transactions over the WAN are final boss hardness. - Andy Pavlo Fauna is a distributed database platform that supports strictly serializable, externally consistent transactions...
How Apache Arrow Is Changing the Big Data Ecosystem
Arrow makes analytics workloads more efficient for modern CPU and GPU hardware, which makes working with large data sets easier and less costly. #bigdata #datascience #opensource #datastorage
Conventional wisdom says that trying to attach system memory to the PCI-Express bus is a bad idea if you care at all about latency. The further the memory
Interview: Why AWS prefers VMs for code isolation, and tips on developing for Lambda • DEVCLASS
At last week’s re:Invent in Las Vegas, DevClass caught up Anthony Liguori, AWS Distinguished Engineer to talk about virtualization, the newly launched Snapstart and best practise when building serverless applications with Lambda. Liguori is a virtualization specialist who was project leader for QEMU for nearly 6 years while at IBM, and now works on Amazon’s […]
The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a student to prompt ChatGPT […]
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Blast from the past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it's very different) - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent domain names. Instead of typing a domain name like Money.com in your browser, you […]
RFC 3368: The 'go' URI Scheme for the Common Name Resolution Protocol
This document defines a URI scheme, 'go:' to be used with the Common Name Resolution Protocol. Specifically it lays out the syntactic components and how those components are used by URI Resolution to find the available transports for a CNRP service. Care should be taken with several of the URI components because, while they may look like components found in other URI schemes, they often do not act like them. The 'go' scheme has more in common with the location independent 'news' scheme than any other URI scheme.
People often refer to things in the real world by a common name or phrase, e.g., a trade name, company name, or a book title. These names are sometimes easier for people to remember and type than URLs. Furthermore, because of the limited syntax of URLs, companies and individuals are finding that the ones that might be most reasonable for their resources are being used elsewhere and so are unavailable. For the purposes of this document, a 'common name' is a word or a phrase, without imposed syntactic structure, that may be associated with a resource.
Build Your Own Decentralized Twitter, Part 2: Mitigations
Creating a distributed social media system is all well and good, but how do you address problems like deleted tweets? David Eastman explains. #socialmedia #DIY #tutorial