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The ELO player rating system, originally introduced for chess, can now be found in many competitive (e)sports. It aims to be a measure to compare players against each other, but it is any worth? This…
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A mathematical algorithm, greek politics and a bunch of priests…this is what you need for the most beautiful paper I have ever read. This week I am bringing you a paper about the Paxos distributed…
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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…
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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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 😉
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).…
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…