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| | | | | Clocks are important to computers. Computers need to order events in a way understandable to humans. Every computer has a bunch of internal counters, like CPU ticks. But they only work within one machine. We need a way to have a reliable, global clock, that is synchronized between many computers. Why, exactly? Well, imagine you are selling tickets to The Rolling Stones concert. They sometimes sell within a few seconds. First come, first served. But who was first, if selling happens asynchronously in mult... | |
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| | | | | Ch 8 of my book club review of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. | |
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| | | | | ISRG's Prossimo is committed to moving the Internet's security-sensitive software to memory safe code and to encouraging people to prioritize memory safety. | |
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| | | WireGuard is an exciting, new, extremely simple VPN system that uses state-of-the-art cryptography. Its Linux implementation runs in the kernel, which provides a significant performance boost compared to traditional userspace VPN implementations The WireGuard kernel module is great, but sometimes you might not be able to install... | ||