Freebsd is an amazing OS
https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/freebsd-is-an-amazing-operating-system.html [www.unixsheikh.com]
2022-09-01 18:58
tags:
freebsd
os
People who know what they are doing run FreeBSD! Everyone in the communication industry run FreeBSD!
source: unixsheikh
Paul Baran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran [en.wikipedia.org]
2022-09-13 04:04
tags:
history
network
Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran /ˈbærən/; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching.
source: book; where wizards stay up late
Understanding cpu microarchitecture
https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/understanding-cpu-microarchitecture-for-performance-jchampionsconf [speakerdeck.com]
2022-09-02 13:10
tags:
cpu
What happens inside the cpu? how things get delayed...
One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix
https://www.theregister.com/Tag/One%20Way%20Forward [www.theregister.com]
2024-03-02 05:49
tags:
os
Plan 9 was intended to be Unix, done better. It preemptively replaced a lot of what we now bodge together with virtual machines, containers, and even microkernels, and it did it more simply and cleanly. But it wasn’t compatible enough to replace its ancestor. With off-the-shelf existing 21st century tech, we can fix that.
source: fosdem2024
One big server
https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/ [specbranch.com]
2022-09-02 13:11
tags:
architecture
perf
Monolith vs microservices ... small server vs big server...
We have all gotten so familiar with virtualization and abstractions between our software and the servers that run it. These days, “serverless” computing is all the rage, and even “bare metal” is a class of virtual machine. However, every piece of software runs on a server. Since we now live in a world of virtualization, most of these servers are a lot bigger and a lot cheaper than we actually think.
You Want Modules, Not Microservices
https://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html [blogs.newardassociates.com]
2023-03-31 12:20
tags:
microservice
Architecture is hard sometimes--people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream “way to do it” without any context or nuance, and the industry, desperate to find ways to improve their architecture, snaps it up without hesitation. Microservices was the latest in the trend, and it’s time we dissected the idea and got to the real root of what’s going on.
source: CaptainPatate
Fascinating little programs
http://antirez.com/news/74 [antirez.com]
2023-05-11 20:02
tags:
c
simplicity
There is something special in simple code. Here I’m not referring to simplicity to fight complexity or over engineering, but to simplicity per se, auto referential, without goals if not beauty, understandability and elegance.
You Want Modules, Not Microservices
http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html [blogs.newardassociates.com]
2023-01-07 06:46
tags:
microservice
Architecture is hard sometimes--people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream “way to do it” without any context or nuance, and the industry, desperate to find ways to improve their architecture, snaps it up without hesitation. Microservices was the latest in the trend, and it’s time we dissected the idea and got to the real root of what’s going on.
Enough problems to go around
https://world.hey.com/dhh/enough-problems-to-go-around-c10b887d [world.hey.com]
2024-05-02 21:01
tags:
Meaningful problems are the most valuable human motivators. Made-up problems are a blight. Ensure you have not quite enough time and people available to tackle the former lest you start inventing the latter.
source: dhh
The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365 [queue.acm.org]
2023-03-02 07:53
tags:
c
history
phk
OpenBSD innovations
https://openbsd-innovations.ctors.net/ [openbsd-innovations.ctors.net]
2023-03-03 08:13
tags:
openbsd
A curated list of openbsd’s innovations
What color is your function
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/ [journal.stuffwithstuff.com]
2023-03-25 13:46
tags:
language
Writing for engineers
https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/posts/writing/ [www.heinrichhartmann.com]
2022-09-02 13:13
tags:
writing
Writing is key to have impact in large organizations. As a senior software engineer chances are that writing is the most important skill you have to acquire in order to increase your scope beyond the team and advance your career.
This article contains some learnings that have helped the author to become better and more productive as a writer over the past 15 years.
The Bikeshed email
http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/ [phk.freebsd.dk]
2022-09-03 16:50
tags:
history
kamp
The really, really short answer is that you should not. The somewhat longer answer is that just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it. This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.
J. C. R. Licklider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider [en.wikipedia.org]
2022-09-13 04:09
tags:
computing
history
network
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (/ˈlɪklaɪdər/; March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or “Lick”, was an American psychologist[2] and computer scientist .... He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application to all manner of activities; and also as an Internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built
source: book; where wizards stay up late
Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? Get weird, go ALTERNATIVE
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/11/01/25_alternative_pc_operating_systems/ [www.theregister.com]
2024-03-02 05:17
tags:
non-sheep
os
It’s hard to believe, looking at the modern computing world, but there is still more to life than Windows or Unix… and today, most of the alternatives run on vanilla x86 hardware and are free.
La poudre verte - La solution à tous vos problèmes informatiques
https://www.poudreverte.org/ [www.poudreverte.org]
2023-03-31 07:49
tags:
funny
* Décongestion de réseaux
* Débuggage de logiciels
* Protection contre les virus
* Protection contre les tentatives d’intrusions
* Restructuration de services
* Partage de connexion Internet sans connexion
* Suppression aléatoire de compte utilisateur
* Protection anti-spoofing basée sur les adresses MAC
* Définition de politique de gestion et de sécurité aléatoire
* Elimination systématique des fichiers de log (journaux)
* Protection contre les DoS et DDoS grâce au système exclusif InUranus®
* Support de IPoT
* Rend vos données importantes accessibles à tout moment et à tout endroit
* Débloque les claviers qui se bl
source: CaptainPatate
The extensible scheduler class
https://lwn.net/Articles/922405/ [lwn.net]
2023-02-16 08:40
tags:
bpf
linux
In short, the argument goes, the ability to write scheduling policies in BPF greatly lowers the difficulty of experimenting with new approaches to scheduling. Both our workloads and the systems they run on have become much more complex since the completely fair scheduler was introduced; experimentation is needed to develop scheduling algorithms that are suited to current systems. The BPF scheduling class allows that experimentation in a safe manner without even needing to reboot the test machine. BPF-written schedulers can also improve performance for niche workloads that may not be worth supporting in the mainline kernel and are much easier to deploy to a large fleet of systems.
source: https://lwn.net
On Holy Wars And A Plea For Peace
https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt [www.rfc-editor.org]
2022-09-13 06:13
tags:
endianness
history
rfc
This is an attempt to stop a war. I hope it is not too late and that somehow, magically perhaps, peace will prevail again.
The latecomers into the arena believe that the issue is: “What is the proper byte order in messages?”.
Bullshit jobs
https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ [strikemag.org]
2024-05-03 06:35
tags:
bullshit
Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc.)—and particularly its financial avatars—but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value.
source: dhh