Stories by wmf

MediaTemple: Anatomy of Storage (and failure) on the GRID

HAProxy can block a 100,000-connection-per-second DoS

Christopher Blizzard: Canvas 3D vs. Google 3D

OLPC XO Laptop Gen 1.5 with VIA C7-M 1GHz Performance Announced

The politics behind open source Java

Schooner announces $45K optimized memcached and MySQL appliances

Mosso Cloud Servers vs. EC2: Persistent vs. Ephemeral Storage

Disk IO Performance: EC2 vs Mosso vs Linode

The mythical Google server revealed (video)

Michael Abrash: A First Look at the Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni)

Intel "Nehalem" Xeon server processors released

Paranoid Android: Google blocks paid apps for unlocked dev phones

Theodore Ts'o: Aligning filesystems to an SSD’s erase block size

Ed Felten: New Internet? Secure your PC first.

Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites (Leonard Lin)

New Dimension uPrint "personal" 3D printer for $15,000

GoGrid cloud API

The Clash of Community, Company, and Celebrity (perils of corporate transparency)

Neil Fraser: Differential Synchronization

A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small DBs (scale without giving up SQL)

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