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Why doesn't QUIC work well for machine-to-machine traffic ? Is it due to the lack of offloads/optimizations for TCP and machine-to-machine traffic tend to me high volume/high rate …

Anecdotally I keep hearing the overuse/abuse of OOP (Object Oriented Programming paradigm), especially in Java, has proved to be counter productive over the last two+ decades. This…

a database noob question, when you say distribute the database to 50 servers all these are shards, correct? MySQL (or any standard RDBMS) can't span more than one server, correct ?…

Do you have a source for the number you quoted ?

Most content in the social media platforms are dynamic and generated per user based on their friends, iikes, subscriptions etc. Does this mean search engines don't get to index any…

No, these are not the traditional surnames. What I am referring to is a practice of legally changing the last name (typically father's or grand father's name) to Iyer or Iyengar. T…

Fair points. I don't have historical data, but my observation is that the issue of brahmins controlling/dominating lot of sectors was a real problem at some point and the reservati…

I am an Indian and have been in US for many years. There is one thing I have noticed among brahmins, during their Naturalization process many of them change their last names to Iye…

Is this applicable for Go as well ?

https://queue.acm.org/ is providing membership free access for three months. Looking for suggestion for good papers to read. My primary areas of interest, concurrency/performance a…

Genuine questions as someone with no experience in dealing with large sclae log aggregation: Can you share some details on what kind of issues you ran into in production with Elast…

Are there videos for MIT's distributed systems course ? Can't seem to locate it in the site.

I have good ideas for side projects and in general want to keep myself primed by solving algorithmic problems (I am an individual contributor with 15+ years exp and no plans to mov…

Its an area I suck, writing good functionality/integrations tests for the features I implement. Looking for blogs/articles from developers who are better at this, tips, practices e…

Can you provide some references to open source implementations of Succinct implicit trees ? How different are they from a simple unbalanced BST ?

Any idea why it works for v6 but not v4 ? SSH authentication itself is agnostic to the IP version, no ?

can someone help me understand this better.. Did Cisco leave a user public key in the switch and the private key has leaked ? To exploit this vulnerability attacker has to get hold…

What does he mean by this "My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully." ?

Looks like Duo provides a 2FA for accessing any application ? Does it work for any random app ? Are there any details online about the technical details on how that works ?

Do you know if gcp firewall has limits on the number of rules and what those limits are ?

When migrating from Linux firewall to AWS Security Groups are there any issues to be aware of ? I believe number of rules is limited in AWS Security Groups. Are there other limitat…

Curious, what specifically does nftables offer in this context that iptables doesn't ?

Can you share some blog posts, presentations about modern monitoring & alerting framework used by web scale companies ? I hear a lot of about Graphite, Prometheus, Nagios, Datadog …

To be specific, the requirement is to run containers on all the instances. Container connectivity will be through a L3 network using BGP

few thousand EC2 instances ideally in a flat L3 network (using BGP)