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Silav, kesê bijare, everyone working in large scale infrastructure (e.g. as SRE) experienced this situation: The system gets overloaded due to a one (or worst-case many consecutive) of the following conditions: In all of this…
tena koe tangata maere, this weeks paper is a bit unconventional for the newsletter as it is not super technical. It discusses the psychological phenomenas behind the huge success of social media. For me it…
Γεια σου υπέροχο άτομο, after using BitTorrent for some Ubuntu ISOs in the past myself I wanted to learn more about how the network works from a policy standpoint. I always tune down my uploading…
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сәлем керемет адам, This weeks paper is not purely a computer science topic, but never the less super interesting. You may have heard about CRISPR Cas9 and how it quite likely will influence big parts…
გამარჯობა დიდებული ადამიანი, Last week I promised you a paper about how to do video encoding via neural networks. To be frank, I will fail to deliver that paper as it does not exist in…
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مرحبا شخص عظيم, this and next week you will get two papers about the following idea: How could we produce better audio and video encodings. (With better meaning, similar data quality but less bandwidth required).…
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Moin moin, this weeks paper discusses how silent hardware failure can lead to actual user facing errors. In the paper Facebook found that some files went missing because of a power function “1.1^53=0” failing due…
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Hallo geweldig persoon, as during the last week a xfs filesystem failed on me I did research what other filesystem options are out there and stumbled over the new kid on the block: BTRFS a…
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Hello great person, this weeks paper came to me trough the interwebs. It covers the topic how Facebook does Hundrets of Releases to their services all around the globe. TBO most interesting was for me…
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Using Cloudflare myself for my blog and my overall interest in DDoS protection draw me to this weeks paper. It discusses a design of an overlay network for DDoS protection. Quite interesting to learn about the considerations coming into play. Sure Cloudflare, Akamai, Google etc. evolved since then, but this paper gives quite nice fundamentals on how to design such a protection. Especially the computation powered puzzles is a nice concept (was programming one on the weekend actually)….most like Bitcoins proof of work 😉