Hallo geweldig persoon, as during the last week a xfs filesystem failed on me I did research what other filesystem options are out there and stumbled over the new kid on the block: BTRFS a…
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Hello great person, this weeks paper came to me trough the interwebs. It covers the topic how Facebook does Hundrets of Releases to their services all around the globe. TBO most interesting was for me…
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Using Cloudflare myself for my blog and my overall interest in DDoS protection draw me to this weeks paper. It discusses a design of an overlay network for DDoS protection. Quite interesting to learn about the considerations coming into play. Sure Cloudflare, Akamai, Google etc. evolved since then, but this paper gives quite nice fundamentals on how to design such a protection. Especially the computation powered puzzles is a nice concept (was programming one on the weekend actually)….most like Bitcoins proof of work 😉
Hallo ihr Lieben, in Uni they always told us to not cheat during the programming homework as they will find out plagiarism with automatic systems anyway. As the programming part of my studies was always…
Ciao persona fantastica, this weeks paper is about one of my favorite usages of time in computer systems. With calculating time differences between radio signals we(our devices) are able to locate us all around the…
Hello time travelers, the most difficult moments for clocks are the leap seconds. Additional to leap years we also have seconds that are injected into our time system from time to time (pun intended :P).…
Hallo vrienden, the internet time protocol (NTP) is the basis of time synchronization in computer networks. This weeks paper explains the design principles behind it. As the paper is form 1991 you will find some…
Happy new year everyone, during the holidays I did think about my life as well as the past and future of human kind….just kidding 😉 But I went down the rabbit whole in one of…
Hallo ihr lieben, this weeks paper came to me trough a reply to the Bitcoin paper in the Telegram group. One member did point out that Bitcoin is one of the first widely used technologies…
Hey upcoming data science expert, this weeks topic caught my interest as I overheard some colleagues from the machine learning department. Multi-armed bandit theory is a quite old math problem from the 80s with still…
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拝啓, (Japanese as Satoshi Nakamoto claims to be from Japan) this weeks topic is more on the hipster side of things: Bitcoin. Everyone is talking again about it as the price is rallying, but how…
Witam mojego ulubionego abonenta, this weeks topic is about my favorite devops/SRE hype topic: Chaos Engineering. With intentionally introducing chaos and failure into your systems you ensure that developers always think about the failure case…
Hola persona grandiosa, after last weeks topic on the CAP theorem, this week is a lot more practical. A conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) helps you build a distributed system where all nodes converge to…
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Dear awesome person, this weeks paper is about a topic that can be considered ancient in our CS world. The CAP theorem was first introduced in 2000 and this weeks paper is revisiting it in…
Dear awesome person, I found this week’s paper while working on my thesis on an AWS Lambda related topic. If you ever wondered how the inner workings of AWS Lambda are and how the container/VM…
Dear awesome person, as you can see from the newsletter being late this is not some automatic random paper picker I build but indeed me as a Human selecting the papers and sending them out.…
Dear awesome person, the very first newsletter I ever send to Weekly CS Paper is about the topic zk-SNARK a Non-interactive zero-knowledge proof underlying the Zcash cryptocurrency. The paper is quite long as I wanted…
First things first: I love the movement to use more privacy-friendly website analytics tools. More and more small startups are popping up and help you to move away from Google Analytics. And each and every…
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TLDR; After years of searching around I finally found a Linux backup setup that fits my needs: Borg + Vorta + BorgBase As long as I can think back, backing up my Linux system always…
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As you might already have recognized I am in favor of strong privacy technology to counter the surveillance in our current age. One pillar to archive this is to get developers thinking about this and…
Flush the http.ResponseWrite within your code
Fix problems with the Free WIFIonICE and the Docker Bridges
Show custom content to visitors of your page using TOR
Supercharge your development flow with installing your development environment in Docker
Protect your digital life while attending a protest
Use the right method to initialization your slices to improve performance
My approach for switching my parents to Linux
Updated information about how to use the net/http package in production
Archive your website into the wayback machine before closing it
