In the last post I said the fundamental axiom of OS behavior is that at any given time, exactly one and only one task is active on a CPU. But if there’s absolutely nothing to do, then what?
BREAKING: NoSQL just “huge text file and grep”, study findsBREAKING NEWS: a study by the institute for distributed investigation of technologies (IDIOT) has found that all NoSQL technologies are essentially just a massive text file combined with the UNIX tool ‘grep’ NoSQL has risen in popularity in recent years as a hipster alternative to relational da
Introducing osqueryMaintaining real-time insight into the current state of your infrastructure is important. At Facebook, we've been working on a framework called osquery which attempts to approach the concept of low-level operating system monitoring a little differently.
osqueryWhat is osquery? With osquery, you can use SQL to query low-level operating system information. Under the hood, instead of querying static tables, these queries dynamically execute high-performance native code. The results of the SQL query are transparently returned to you quickly and easily.
Have the Angular Team lost their marbles?I’ve posted before that I’m not a big fan of frameworks like Angular.
seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/i_love_unicode_softshake.pdfLast week we conducted a small research in the form of a poll: "What is your favorite RDBMS?". The poll received more responses than anticipated – a little bit over 900 votes were submitted. The topic in question can induce flame wars, but this time it passed without major incidents.
A Simplified Example of MapReduceWhile mentoring through Hackbright I was asked to explain the MapReduce algorithm to students with little technical background, and I came up with an interesting example to illustrate how it works. You want to count how many spades are in a deck of cards.
How to clear HSTS Settings in Major BrowsersSo...I moved my hosting to a new company. No big, right? Except, I had an SSL certificate that implemented HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) on my old server.
PhotoMath uses your phone's camera to solve equationsNeed a little help getting through your next big math exam? MicroBlink has an app that could help you study more effectively -- perhaps too effectively.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.