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Thursday 2024-09-19 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-19
Thursday 2024-09-19 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Thursday, September 19:

  1. Legacy Modernization meets GenAI

    So far, most attention to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in software development is on generating code. But we believe there is as much, if not more, value in understanding existing code - particularly long-lived, large, and complex legacy systems.

  2. User-space interrupts

    The term “interrupt” brings to mind a signal that originates in the hardware and which is handled in the kernel; even software interrupts are a kernel concept. But there is, it seems, a use case for enabling user-space processes to send interrupts directly to each other.

    At its core, Mehta began, the user-space interrupts (or simply “user interrupts”) feature is a fast way to do event signaling. It delivers signals directly to user space, bypassing the kernel to achieve lower latency.

  3. Dissecting the GZIP format
  4. Storing and retrieving millions of ad impressions per second
  5. Sacrificial architecture: Learning from abandoned systems
Wednesday 2024-09-18 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-18
Wednesday 2024-09-18 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Wednesday, September 18:

  1. As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library

    Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers.

  2. OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini

    OpenAI finally unveiled its rumored “Strawberry” AI language model on Thursday, claiming significant improvements in what it calls “reasoning” and problem-solving capabilities over previous large language models (LLMs). Formally named “OpenAI o1,” the model family will initially launch in two forms, o1-preview and o1-mini, available today for ChatGPT Plus and certain API users.

  3. The Good and Bad of C++ As a Rust Dev
  4. Secure by Design for AI: Building Resilient Systems from the Ground Up
  5. Mice made transparent with a dye used in Doritos

    But now, a team of Stanford University scientists has finally found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent without damaging it. This agent was tartrazine, a popular yellow-orange food dye called FD&C Yellow 5 that is notably used for coloring Doritos.

Tuesday 2024-09-17 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-17
Tuesday 2024-09-17 Assorted Links

Today is a .NET focused day.

Assorted links for Tuesday, September 17:

  1. Performance Improvements in .NET 9
  2. How Async/Await Really Works in C#
  3. Dynamically Adapting To Application Sizes: A blog post about advanced garbage collection techniques.
  4. Preventing breaking changes in public APIs with PublicApiGenerator. See also Preventing breaking changes in .NET class libraries.
  5. A Complete .NET Developer’s Guide to Span with Stephen Toub
Thursday 2024-09-12 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-12
Thursday 2024-09-12 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Thursday, September 12:

  1. noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set: It may be worthwhile to investigate alternative data structure implementations like Boost.Unordered

    GNU libstdc++’s hash-based associative containers change the struct layout of their nodes depending on the noexceptness of your hash function

  2. RETINAS: Real-Time Infrastructure Accounting for Sustainability

    We are introducing a new metric – real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness —- as part of the RETINAS initiative to help reduce emissions and achieve net zero emissions across our value chain in 2030. This new metric allows us to measure server resource usage (e.g., compute, storage) and efficiency in our large-scale data center server fleet in near real-time.

  3. How Meta enforces purpose limitation via Privacy Aware Infrastructure at scale

    Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) offers efficient and reliable first-class privacy constructs embedded in Meta infrastructure to address complex privacy issues. For example, we built Policy Zones that apply across our infrastructure to address restrictions on data, such as using it only for allowed purposes, providing strong guarantees for limiting the purposes of its processing.

  4. Landlock: unprivileged access control: Landlock is a userspace API provided by the Linux kernel.

    The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g. global filesystem or network access) for a set of processes.

  5. Intel Further Speeds Up strnlen() In The GNU C Library For Recent Intel/AMD CPUs: It’s incredible that we’re still finding performance improvements in venerable functions like strlen().
Tuesday 2024-09-10 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-10
Tuesday 2024-09-10 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Tuesday, September 10:

  1. Visualizing boost::unordered_map in GDB, with pretty-printer customization points
  2. Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

    From your perspective as a user, an “encrypted messenger” ensures that each time you start a conversation, your messages will only be readable by the folks you intend to speak with… Telegram clearly fails to meet this stronger definition for a simple reason: it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default. If you want to use end-to-end encryption in Telegram, you must manually activate an optional end-to-end encryption feature called “Secret Chats” for every single private conversation you want to have.

  3. Threat Monitoring: Best Practices for Security
  4. FUSE Adding IDMAPPED Mounts Support In Linux 6.12
  5. Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption
Monday 2024-09-09 Assorted Links
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Published: 2024-09-09
Monday 2024-09-09 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, September 9:

  1. A Guide to Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
  2. Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

    While the much celebrated ideal of a “full stack engineer” is valuable, in deep and complex systems it’s often even more valuable to create cohorts of experts who can collaborate and get really creative across the entire stack and all their individual areas of depth.

  3. Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
  4. Governing data products using fitness functions

    Fitness functions are a powerful automated governance technique we’ve applied to data products within the context of a Data Mesh. Since data products serve as the foundational building blocks (architectural quanta) of a data mesh, ensuring robust governance around them significantly increases the chances of a successful data mesh transformation.

  5. Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime