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The article discusses how to useadvisory locksin Postgres using a string as a lock key in Go. - Advisory locks allow clients to take out specific locks with meanings defined by an application, and they are useful for app coordination. - Postgres tracks lock IDs as integers internally, but it's commo.. read more Â
The author explores how to useTrusted Platform Modules (TPM)to create and store secrets in a secure manner using Go. They discuss the differences between RSA and elliptic curve cryptography and demonstrate how to perform an Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange using TPM. The article provides .. read more Â
The author of this blog post announces their intention to write an OS in Go and discusses their choice of bootloader and the difficulties encountered with building a bootloader that can run on both BIOS and UEFI. The author mentions that UEFI is the way to go if they want their OS to work on newer .. read more Â
Danksharding is a method to scale the amount of data on the Ethereum chain in a future version of the platform using Data Availability Sampling (DAS). - It follows protodanksharding (EIP-4844), which introduces a new transaction type called a "blob-carrying transaction." - These data blobs will be d.. read more Â
Kubernetes is undergoing significant developments in networking for cloud-native deployments. - The Special Interest Group-Networking project leads outlined upcoming innovations at the recent KubeCon. - The Ingress API has limitations, including an insufficient permission model, a focus on HTTP traf.. read more Â
Platform engineering is not killing DevOps, but it is minimizing the tool sprawl that DevOps unleashed. - The platform approach is about designing and building self-service capabilities to minimize cognitive overload for developers and enable fast software delivery. - DevOps wanted to enable develop.. read more Â
Discord has migrated its messages database fromCassandratoScyllaDBdue to scalability and maintenance issues. The Cassandra cluster suffered from hot partitions, leading to unpredictable latency, and required constant maintenance. - ScyllaDB offered better performance, faster repairs, stronger worklo.. read more Â
The IT industry has a large carbon footprint, and IT professionals have a responsibility to tackle climate change. Going to the cloud and using serverless are effective ways to reduce resource usage and carbon footprint. However, these routes are not always feasible, and making applications more eff.. read more Â
The article highlights the incident management process inGovTech Edu, which has helped the organization to ensure system reliability and prevent incidents from happening again. - The incident management process is essential for maintaining system reliability and preventing incidents from happening a.. read more Â
The article discusses the limitations of localized mitigation mechanisms in dealing with complex failures that involve interactions between services in a microservice system. It identifies four types of microservice failures: - cascading failure, - retry storm, - death spiral, - metastable failure.T.. read more Â
