Stories by birdculture

Lustre v5.0.0 Released

Retracing Google's steps: recreating the Webtable in Rust

Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL with automatic sharding

Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer

Using the Lamborghini of inference engines for serverless Llama 3

Falsify: Hypothesis-Inspired Shrinking for Haskell (2023)

Designing a fast RNG for SIMD, GPUs, and shaders

We don't need no virtualization

Ship Software That Does Nothing

My Journey to FreeBSD: Building a 'Just Focus' Laptop

CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks

Nginx's Concurrent Connection Handling

Pitfalls of Safe Rust

How I learned to stop worrying and love erasure

New Python lock file format will specify dependencies

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode

Database Protocols Are Underwhelming

OSS-SEC: Three bypasses of Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restrictions

Prepare()-ing for execution: a new API for process creation

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