This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON 'API' requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.

Shortly after I picked up ‘Dead Souls,’ my mother died a gruesome, absurd death, and I quickly found that Gogol’s surrealism was not so surreal after all.

A parasite gives its hosts the appearance of youth, and an unmatched social power in the colony.

(RTTNews) - Marriott International, Inc. (MAR) announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Virginia against the unknown perpetrators (John Does) responsible for illegal and fraudulent "robocalls" misusing Marriott's name.The suit claims…

Face masks are highly effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission because, in most environments, airborne virus abundance is limited.

The RISC-V CPU architecture has been
gaining prominence for some years; its relatively open nature makes it an
attractive platform on which a number of companies have built products.
Linux supports
RISC-V well, but there is one gaping hole: there is no support…

This is the companion reference for A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages, my lecture for a friend’s college class. The video should be legible to other viewers, and the material here should be (mostly) understandable without watching the video.
The…

Ida Nelson says lighting up the runway is just another example of the community coming together. "It’s something that we in Igiugig do constantly, like almost every day.”

And yet we have very little idea where anuses come from.

Simplevisor : SimpleVisor is a simple, portable, Intel VT-x hypervisor with two specific goals: using the least amount of assembly code (10 lines), and having the smallest amount of VMX-related code to support dynamic hyperjacking and unhyperjacking (that…

I just rejected a request for a 2.5GB file size limit on PyPI and think it’s probably time we have a discussion about why and the future of the ecosystem here. File sizes on PyPI have been slowly increasing in size for a while now, mostly driven by certain…

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At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with customers and the InfoSec community to learn more about the latest adversary tradecraft so that we can improve our detection strategies across all our security services. To help the broader security community…

Taking a look at affordability for first-time buyers, and what useful metrics can be constructed to measure this.

I love building developer tools and utilities. And, I believe the reason is simple, because I am a developer, and those tools I make, I create first of all for myself. I worked for Microsoft before on Visual Studio.
I worked in Splunk on some work related…

The Biden administration's tax enforcement proposal would require that cryptocurrency transfers over $10,000 be reported to the Internal Revenue Service and would more than double the IRS workforce over a decade, the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday.

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