A technical deep dive into improving ext4 filesystem performance by optimizing the allocator to reduce e2fsck pass2 times.
Developer contributes ATL1E NIC driver patch to Debian Linux kernel, then discovers his new work computer needs the same driver.
A tutorial on implementing a custom OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute for server and client-side caching in ASP.NET MVC applications.
Donald Knuth discusses his preference for Linux and critiques the shift to multi-core architecture, questioning its benefits for most software.
Analyzes the distinction between 'organic' and 'non-organic' open source development models, using examples like Apache and MySQL.
A PHP implementation for extracting custom XML data from OpenXML Word documents in a healthcare data processing scenario.
How to use .htaccess-like mod_rewrite syntax for URL rewriting in ASP.NET applications with a custom library.
Article on using PHP with Microsoft's OpenXML format to generate Excel 2007 spreadsheets, featuring the PHPExcel project.
A comparison of the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) and Usenix conferences, focusing on paper quality, attendee energy, and relevance to Linux/OSS development.
A 2002 article critiques the music industry's surprise at zip files being used to share albums online, highlighting their technological disconnect.
Learn key design principles for building reliable and resilient real-time streaming systems, including redundancy, failover, durability, and monitoring.
Compares two methods for bulk reloading SQL Server clustered columnstore indexes, recommending drop/recreate for best performance and packing.
Learn key strategies for designing scalable real-time architectures, including partitioning, hot/cold path separation, bottleneck identification, and realistic load testing.
Discussion on whether databases should use foreign key constraints, addressing common developer objections and advocating for their use.
Learn to monitor and manage Activator triggers in Fabric RTI, including viewing trigger events, editing rules, and avoiding loops.
Learn how to trigger Teams messages, emails, and workflows from Fabric Activator for real-time notifications and hybrid automation.
Review of 'The Orange Book of Machine Learning: Green Edition', a practical ML book focused on supervised learning with Python, pandas, scikit-learn, and Jupyter.
Explains how Microsoft Fabric Activator triggers Azure Logic Apps for enterprise IT workflows, comparing Logic Apps with Power Automate and highlighting DevOps support.
Explores SQL Server's auto page repair feature in database mirroring and Availability Groups, its usefulness, limitations, and underlying storage issues.
