Stories by wmf

Toward a Slow-News Movement

The Cloud Performance Catch-22: CPU-I/O Balance

What Hole is Amazon RDS Filling?

How Con Kolivas's BFS CPU scheduler works

Security by obscurity in the cloud cannot last as the gold standard

Grand Central Dispatch internals and FreeBSD port [pdf]

P2P on the Flash Platform with RTMFP

The State of OpenCL & the First End-User OpenCL Drivers

NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Two Database Cargo Cults

How to properly load test Google App Engine

More detailed thoughts from a Sun engineer about Backblaze and cheap storage

The Citrix Open vSwitch appears online

Black Hat Conference 2009 Proceedings

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales colludes with NY Times to suppress news?

The RADOS distributed object store

Key-Value Stores: Beyond Filesystems (Jeff Darcy)

Is It Possible to Legislate Fair Bandwidth Sharing? [pdf]

Equifax I-Cards: A Service to Prove You Are Really You

This is Not a Game (Walter Jon Williams)

Theora update for May 2009; quality has improved dramatically

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