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你好親愛的, China is known for having the best internet censorship around the globe. This week’s paper measured 411M DNS entries per day over a period of 9 months. The paper dives into how the blocking…
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สวัสดีที่รัก, you might know there are 13 root DNS server (okay, actually server clusters with anycast routing, but let’s assume there are actually 13 physical servers). These serve as the backbone of the modern internet…
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buna draga, When I first learned about ray tracing it really got me excited. It is such an easy concept: shooting rays out your view and seeing where they bounce off until they hit a…
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aruntt’apxsmawa munat kullaka, I am currently playing around with HTTP/2 and trying to figure out if and what performance benefits it brings. One interesting feature I found is the possibility to push data from the…
សួស្តីជាទីស្រឡាញ់, this is a classic computer science bachelor topic: Sorting algorithms, implementing them and in the figuring out that Quicksort is the fastest you can get (by divide-n-conquer). Hence, it amazed me to find out…
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nyob zoo tus hlub, in my blog I am cheating a little for performance as I have heavy Cloudflare caching in front of it, but the default optimization for WordPress is using Memcached, a widely…
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Привіт Люба this week’s paper by Facebook Research is a bit dated (2014) as you also feel when reading through it (as it uses Flash Player as research ground), but nevertheless I learned quite a…
Kaixo maitea, this week’s paper is about the handling of data at scale. And for that the MapReduce framework was invented, which gives a nice abstraction for working on data without caring about the underlying…
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hallo Liefling, As you might have figured by now, I love research about large scale Internet attacks and this week’s paper is again in that area. The paper presents a novel way on how to…
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silav delalê, this week’s paper is a classic again: How to use eBPF to enhance network package filtering in Linux. The authors discuss two use cases for eBPF and also provide example code, so you…
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