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by ctur 8y ago
Generally XARs are lighter weight than a container. While you can (and sometimes we do) use XARs to deploy, say, a self-contained service like a website, often they are used to replace command line tooling. Container isolation (cgroups, na
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by ctur 8y ago
Hi, I'm Chip, one of the authors of the blog post and XAR itself. Happy to answer any questions anyone may have about how XARs work, the way we use them, or the motivations that drove their development.
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by ctur 9y ago
This rings true to anyone who has owned a Tesla, especially if they purchased it when the model was new. Repeated trips to get minor things fixed is not uncommon. Nonetheless, they are excellent cars and worth the early adopter frustration
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Squeezing the firehose: getting the most from Kafka compression(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by ctur 9y ago|0 comments
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Deregulated popoff on net neutrality(medium.com)
1 points by ctur 9y ago|0 comments
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by ctur 9y ago
I've used it for the same purpose, but one thing to bear in mind is the problems are incredibly focused on a small domain, so while you can pick up some bits of a language, it is nowhere near a thorough introduction.
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by ctur 9y ago
It often is, especially if the tarball is compressed (especially if you use anything but Zstandard) or on a network store rather than fast local ssd. Typically a rule of thumb is a hard drive with a spindle may five around 100mb/sec t
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Linux Kernel: Add zstd modules(lkml.org)
1 points by ctur 9y ago|0 comments
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by ctur 10y ago
I definitely understand reluctance to trust new data formats. I will say though that we have been using Zstandard in production at Facebook since well before 1.0 and trust it completely for both data at rest and data in flight. Since 1.0,
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by ctur 10y ago
We currently are exploring a seekable format for Zstandard right now. What use case do you have in mind -- network or at rest? If you want to file a github PR describing how you'd like it to work, that will help guide our implementat
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Better Compression with Zstandard(gregoryszorc.com)
250 points by ctur 10y ago|62 comments
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by ctur 10y ago
The Fourth Estate is doing its job. Whatever the truth is, the pressure from respected institutions like the Washington Post and New York Times will be a big part of why we eventually find it. I am proud that the press is holding the gove
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by ctur 10y ago
I'm not sure when videos will be posted -- hopefully soon. All benchmarks today are single threaded. The algorithm itself is single threaded, but can be parallelized across cores. We will soon release a pzstd command line utility to
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by ctur 10y ago
Yann will be giving a talk on Zstandard at today's @Scale 2016 conference, and the video will be posted. He can answer the most technical questions about Zstandard, but I may be able to answer some as well; we both work on compression
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by ctur 10y ago
The format itself is documented ( https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/master/zstd_compressio... ) with the intention of other implementations and language bindings being readily available. We also have
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by ctur 10y ago
I would love to see Kraken taken for a spin by objective third parties in a fully transparent way that compared it to the available alternatives on equal footing. Sadly, a compression benchmark that doesn't detail the compiler, hardwar
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by ctur 10y ago
What this article misses is that genuine feedback helps us grow, and being open to it is as important as being able to deliver it in a way that doesn't take something away from the recipient. Getting others' input and adapting to
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by ctur 11y ago
Two alternative, and better, choices, if you're willing to spend a few dollars (and hopefully expense it to your manager): The Linux Programming Interface: http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Han..
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Small Data Compression(fastcompression.blogspot.com)
4 points by ctur 11y ago|0 comments
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by ctur 11y ago
strace is very powerful, but probably not the tool I would jump to at first to solve this mystery. Instead, just go to the source code. Being able to read, interpret, understand, and, eventually, modify other peoples' code is a found
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by ctur 12y ago
Anonymous free speech can sure bring out some ugly things in people. Freedoms, though, often cut both ways, protecting important and significant behaviors but also sometimes allowing sad and pathetic ones. I think it would be delicious pu
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by ctur 12y ago
I look forward to this being back-ported to Python 2.x so that it might get used in the real world.
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by ctur 12y ago
I'm not sure what all of the fuss is about. They didn't somehow obtain a copy of Google's real certificate; they made a fake one with the same contents, but not signed by a certificate authority your browser trusts. Your br
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by ctur 12y ago
folly::fbstring, a drop-in replacement for std::string, is part of the folly library that we (Facebook) open sourced a while back. It allocates small strings in-line and larger strings on the heap and has optimizations for medium and large
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by ctur 13y ago
This is a technique useful in many different places. Using enums/defines that don't start at 0 in C/C++, for instance, helps debugging when you're dealing with possible memory corruption. Likewise, making sure related
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by ctur 13y ago
This is a pretty complicated solution. There are a ton of easier ones, but probably the easiest is to just use ec2-ssh. It lets you apply tags to your ec2 instances and ssh to them by very simple names. https://pypi.python.org&