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eBPF Documentary

Brendan Gregg

If you are new to eBPF, it is the name of a kernel execution engine that runs a variety of new programs in a performant and safe sandbox in the kernel, like how JavaScript can run programs safely in a browser sandbox; it is also no longer an acronym.) " If they get merged?? They have to get merged, this idea is too good to waste.

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Join me at SXSW 2015

All Things Distributed

The program is always a bit in flux, but here are the events in the beginning of the week that I am taking part in: Sunday 3/15 1-2pm - I will give a talk at Techstars on " The History of Microcroservices at Amazon ". There will also be a talk and Q&A about Amazon Lamba at noon. Following my talk there will be a reception.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

Since it’s launch in December 2015, Let’s Encrypt has steadily grown to become the largest CA in the Web PKI by certificates issued and the fourth largest known CA by Firefox Beta TLS full handshakes. Navigating the SSL marketplace was difficult and confusing.

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Interview on CppCast

Sutter's Mill

The podcast doesn’t seem to have chapters, but here are a few of my own notes about sections of interest: 00:00 Intro 04:30 News: LLVM 16.0.0, “C++ Initialisation” book, new user groups 15:45 Start of interview 16:08 Why I don’t view Cpp2 as a “successor language” 16:25 A transpiler is a compiler (see also: cfront, PyPy, TypeScript, …) 17:20 Origins (..)

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What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace

As early as 2015, the Canadian Broadcasting corporation used Azure App Services, the managed platform for building web apps, to scale its real-time election-night website to handle requests from millions of users. The platform reserves a base number of virtual machines and automatically adds instances as needed during periods of heavy use.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

I have in mind a large, red, bold-faced label saying “ if your process uses more than 32 MiB of memory then this may make your program run 250 times slower and it won’t really save memory so maybe use THREAD_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN instead.” But fixing the documentation would not be as valuable as fixing the background mode.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

In 2015, we expanded the AWS Activate program in Korea to provide startups with the resources needed to get started on AWS, such as access to guidance and 1:1 time with AWS experts as well as web-based training, self-paced labs, customer support, third-party offers, and AWS promotional credits.

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