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Paypal Horror Story 40k Frozen No Answers
Original EnglishI realize it's just programming, but it's programming that I don't trust myself to do in a way that's reliable and secure.
Redis re-implemented in Rust
Original EnglishI quickly noticed that the benchmark was way below Redis (around 60% of ops/sec with 50 clients).
"I've isolated the bug to a database query"
Original EnglishThe result is that many developers will do selection and sorting algorithmically (taking the bugs and LOC that entails), instead of using declarative SQL.
Ask HN: What book changed your life?
Original EnglishThe company making the boards was Systems Concepts of San Francisco; I think they cost $1500.
Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla
Original EnglishFor iOS I wrote an SDK around PLCrashReporter because unwinding stacks on the client works out way better on iOS than dealing with a minidump.
Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20
Original EnglishI've run into many Linux driver bugs, usually for video drivers but sometimes for other components.
Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
Original EnglishAround 3 years ago, we started to get a lot of customers for our VoIP tunneling solution, mostly from UAE.
Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
Original EnglishIt probably needed some JVM tuning, but we were just deploying as a stateful set (for the postgres).
How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
Original EnglishI wrote a white paper for Bart comparing GFS cost per gigabyte to the NetApp cost per gigabyte, and NetApp was way cheaper because it …