~betterdevlink | Issues #271 Nov 26, 2024 (27)

Memory: The Forgotten History This article explores the historical development of memory in computing, from the early innovations in storage to the evolution of modern memory technologies. It reflects on the forgotten milestones in memory history and their impact on current computing.

Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? why Windows 95 setup goes through three operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and then Windows 95. Why not go from MS-DOS straight to Windows 95?

A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most efficient routes for delivering Internet traffic. In this post, we’re exploring the intra-day shenanigans with an eye to finding some of the ridiculous things that go on out.

How we prevent conflicts in authoritative DNS configuration using formal verification Learn how CloudFlare use formal verification to mathematically prove properties about DNS addressing behavior, even when different systems (owned by different teams) at Cloudflare have contradictory views on which IP addresses should be returned.

How DRAM Changed the World This blog post from Micron explores the transformative role of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) in the evolution of technology. It highlights DRAM’s impact on everything from personal computing to cloud infrastructures and its continued importance in the development of modern devices.

Best Practices for Bulk Optimization of Queries in PostgreSQL After reading this article, you’ll learn about the techniques we use to analyze SQL query performance when dealing with millions of queries per day and monitoring hundreds of PostgreSQL servers.

Loading the World! OpenStreetMap Import In Under 4 Hours The OpenStreetMap (OSM) database builds almost 750GB of location data from a single file download. OSM notoriously takes a full day to run. A fresh open street map load involves both a massive write process and large index builds. It is a great performance stress-test bulk load for any Postgres system. I use it to...

Build your own personal SIRI with LLAMA-3 like a PRO! In this easy-to-follow tutorial, you will learn how to build your own voice assistant Siri with the LLAMA-3 AI Model.

SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache In this series of articles, I would like to talk about Linux Page Cache. I believe that the following knowledge of the theory and tools is essential and crucial for every SRE. This understanding can help both in usual and routine everyday DevOps-like tasks and in emergency debugging and firefighting. Page Cache is often left unattended, and...

Tiny GraphRAG (Part 1) We’re going to build a tiny 1000 line implementation of a GraphRAG algorithm originally invented by Microsoft. I consistently hear people talk about this algorithm at meetups, but it appears there are several orders of magnitude of people talking about it than actually using it or implementing it. Likely because the reference implementation is enormous and rather complex. So let’s...

nokolexbor High-performance HTML5 parser for Ruby based on Lexbor, with support for both CSS selectors and XPath. A drop-in replacement for Nokogiri.

jsep a simple expression parser written in JavaScript. It can parse JavaScript expressions but not operations. The difference between expressions and operations is akin to the difference between a cell in an Excel spreadsheet vs. a proper JavaScript program.

PoWA performance tool compatible with all PostgreSQL versions (down to 9.4) allowing to collect, aggregate and purge statistics gathered from multiple PostgreSQL instances from various Stats Extensions.

ovault: Secure Vault for OAuth Credentials Ovault is an open-source tool designed to securely store OAuth credentials for applications. It offers encrypted storage, helping developers manage sensitive tokens without compromising security.

lexical An extensible text editor framework that does things differently. At somepoint you would definetely need a JS text editor, having another option is great.