System Architecture

In the final filesystem session at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), David Howells led a discussion on a filesystem optimization that is causing various kinds of problems. Extent-based filesystems have data structures that sometimes do not reflect the holes that exist in files. Reads from holes in sparse files (i.e. files with holes) must return zeroes, but filesystems are not obligated to maintain knowledge of the holes beyond that, which leads to the problems.

We pride ourselves that every human being is slightly different. We have a unique face, unique fingerprints, unique voice, all of which are so distinctive that we can identify each other with them. Animals have the same uniquess (ask any

Ed Yong tells us about the strange world of animal senses.

Learn how Google PageRank works and why it matters in our latest guide.

They’re so fast we can’t catch up! Check out our benchmarks with two datasets to learn how we used continuous aggregates to make queries up to 44,000x faster, while requiring 60 % less storage (on average).

Cancelled the K12 CPU? Big mistake. Huge, says Jim Keller

'Write once, run anywhere' finally came true, thanks to APE and the Cosmopolitan libc

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Alert! Your state might already be infected! learn how and what todo about it in this article.

For the 447th episode of Stack Overflow’s podcast, GitHub’s former Chief Technology Officer Jason Warner shared some fascinating tales of tech transformation. The conversation covered both the massive scaling effort at GitHub from May 2017 to July 2021 and the story of Warner’s own “non-traditional” path into programming from “farm country” in Connecticut. Maybe both […]

This article will go in-depth on the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, agent-based and network-based vulnerability scanning.

DX is now emerging from stealth with 5,000 developer teams from companies including Chime and Upwork on board.

I am excited to announce the official v0.1.0 release of Axon and AxonOnnx. A lot has changed (and improved) since the initial public announcement of Axon. In this post I will explore Axon and its i…

Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Cloud. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?

Distributed caching is important for cloud-based applications. It facilitates incremental scaling, allowing the cache to grow and incorporate more data.

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Leonid Belkind, co-founder of Torq, discusses the ideas behind zero trust and how the strategy works in practice. This is another excerpt from our new ebook, sponsored by Torq. #security #zerotrust #cloudnative #sponsored

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