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Making SQL Server run on Linux
This post was authored by Scott Konersmann, Partner Engineering Manager, SQL Server, Slava Oks, Partner Group Engineering Manager, SQL Server, and Tobias Ternstrom, Principal Program Manager, SQL...
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System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively
There are few things more frustrating than a slow-loading Web page. For companies, what’s even worse is what comes after: users abandoning their site in droves. Amazon, for example, estimates that...
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Gimli Glider
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAir Canada Flight 143Flight 143 after landing at Gimli, ManitobaAccident summaryDateJuly 23, 1983SummaryFuel starvation due to insufficient refueling and improper...
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32-bit homebrew CPU using 74' series logic
Browsing the web I found a fascinating niche activity. People have built homebrew CPUs/computers using just basic logic chips. And they actually worked, they did real computation. These ranged from...
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Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It
If you happen to live in one of the six million US homes that have so far purchased an Amazon Echo, you may think Alexa is just a voice emanating from a cylindrical speaker that knows a couple of...
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A No-Nonsense Machiavelli
davidecoroneo.itDavide Coroneo: Niccolò Machiavelli, 2012“Why did you translate Machiavelli, if you didn’t see the point of translating Boccaccio?” Since I wrote about my decision not to retranslate...
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Galvanism and the Telegraph
We last left the electric telegraph wandering through the decades in a kind of limbo. A fascinating demonstration piece, a promising curiosity, it had yet to prove itself as a practical instrument. By...
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Retiring SHA-1 certificates
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ALPHA observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time
Alpha Experiment in 2016. Credit: CERNIn a paper published today in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This...
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Wycheproof – Tests that check cryptographic software for known weaknesses
Posted by Daniel Bleichenbacher, Security Engineer and Thai Duong, Security Engineer We’re excited to announce the release of Project Wycheproof, a set of security tests that check cryptographic...
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One Way to Improve Your Coding
Editor's Note: I originally wrote this for Fuel Your Coding back in May of 2010. Unfortunately, that site is now defunct, so I'm republishing the article here for posterity's sake1. I considered...
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Choosing Functional Programming for Our Game
In the last couple of months I have been learning how to program. The decision to sit down and learn how to code came inevitably despite my enormous efforts to avoid it up until now. As I mentioned in...
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Matchmaker, find me a grant
Steven Chan/Y CombinatorKatharine Corriveau, Angela Braren and Gauri Manglik co-founded Instrumentl, a website that aims to match researchers to grants.When Angela Braren met Katharine Corriveau in...
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Uber's Loss Exceeds $800M in Q3 on $1.7B in Net Revenue
Ride-hailing company's annual loss may hit $3 billion by year's end by December 19, 2016, 7:07 PM ESTEven as Uber Technologies Inc. exited China, the company's financial loss has remained eye-popping....
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Reducing the maximum latency of a bound buffer in Erlang
Recently I came across two great articles on the Pusher blog: Low latency, large working set, and GHC’s garbage collector: pick two of three and Golang’s Real-time GC in Theory and Practice. The...
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Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5At the lowest layers of a Kubernetes node is the software that, among other things, starts and stops...
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Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch
Welcome to no man’s land.No co-founders. No funding. No connections. No customers. No — you’re not nuts.But First, a Digression…Are you like me and completely sick of all the patronizing startup advice...
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A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief
Looking at the numbers, I began to wonder: How many times, during that disappointingly banal crime spree, was my thief photographed, tagged, measured or otherwise observed in our semi-constant world of...
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Japan’s SoftBank Invests $1B in Satellite Startup OneWeb
Updated Dec. 19, 2016 6:27 a.m. ETJapan’s SoftBank Group Corp. is pumping $1 billion into OneWeb Ltd., which aims to use hundreds of satellites to provide internet access in rural areas and developing...
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So you want to expose Go on the Internet
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That’s not necessary anymore!At Cloudflare we recently experimented...
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