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I tried it the very first day it was available to Google employees, and it was not usable. Then a few weeks back, I gave it another try and I was pleasantly surprised. It was insan…

- Articles from highscalability.com - Videos and presentations from USENIX. Especially OSDI and NSDI - Meta's Production Engineering blog posts - Books in "The Architecture of Open…

Looks like something I want to use. Would this help me preparing to [aspirationally] compete in the FMWC (Financial Modeling World Cup) ?

> Low Latency Commit: Avoid the high write latency of direct log writes to S3 by using Raft replication. I'm wondering how does Raft replication avoids high write latency

What are use cases for handling the authorization at the JVM level? As opposed to do it at the OS level or platform level e.g., SELinux, AWS security policy

Gemini generating SQL queries from natural language could be an example of AI making DBs more usable. There is more people speaking natural language than SQL https://cloud.google.c…

These TinyML courses on edx look good https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/harvardx-tiny-m...

Which shows how bad are other comments, e.g., the one saying: "The solution is simple: keep the [cats] indoors"

iotop ?

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

A Tour of Applied Program Analysis and Domain-Specific Automated Testing

It made me realize there are ways for capitalism to be “ethical”, that not all banks are trying to make a profit at all costs and that there are investors that track and optimize f…

“Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered” Available on edX and MIT OpenCourseWare Putting money to a good use, caring about society and the environment.

not really hard just harder than Java

With GraalVM it is possible to build native binaries, so no need for JVM to run programs written in Java

Not broken according to the response to that paper: the conclusions drawn by this paper with regard to CryptDB's guarantees for medical applications are incorrect: had the guidelin…

Related video explaining encryption schemes to make encrypted data in a DB queryable: CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database https://youtu.be/xsaXMUelOEA?t=807

I saw this a few days ago in Matt Levine's newsletter.