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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…
A few weeks ago I posted the Newsletter about the Paxos Paper over on Reddit. And boy, Reddit did deliver…quite some hate, but also great comments and ideas. So I did, what every reasonable, grown…
Read more of yaDCP – Yet another distributed consensus paper
The ELO player rating system, originally introduced for chess, can now be found in many competitive (e)sports. It aims to be a measure to compare players against each other, but it is any worth? This…
Read more of The age-old mathematics behind the ELO system and is it any worth?
buna draga, When I first learned about ray tracing it really got me excited. It is such an easy concept: shooting rays out your view and seeing where they bounce off until they hit a…
Read more of This game graphics looks so damn good because of Ray tracing
aruntt’apxsmawa munat kullaka, I am currently playing around with HTTP/2 and trying to figure out if and what performance benefits it brings. One interesting feature I found is the possibility to push data from the…
nyob zoo tus hlub, in my blog I am cheating a little for performance as I have heavy Cloudflare caching in front of it, but the default optimization for WordPress is using Memcached, a widely…
Read more of Making WordPress faster the hardcore way: Optimizing Memcached with in-kernel caching