I recently wrote a high-level blog post for NGINX outlining the new SO_REUSEPORT feature in NGINX. One of the problems I was having whilst doing the benchmarks for this was that I was hitting some kind of bottleneck before hitting the limit of what NGINX could process. This meant that ...
Several months ago I was having a Sunday brunch with some friends in Seattle. One of the discussions that came up was the fact that NGINX needed to expand their developer relations team and we were thinking up names of likely candidates for the role. Fast forward to today and ...
I've been using Parallels quite successfully for several months now and I must admit it is a great way to run all my various Linux distros that I work with on my Mac.
One of my main VMs is the latest Fedora release ...
In a bid to aim this blog at multiple levels I'm going to talk today about Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) in C. I'm covering this topic in particular because a friend who is a Harvard CS50 student recently asked me about them.
Just under a year ago on my old blog I discussed and even demoed the new Linux live kernel patching solutions. I was reviewing these technologies out of my own curiosity as well as HP's Advanced Technology Group having an interest. I think these technologies are great, I am ...
For those who are not familiar with the concept the C10K problem is about trying to handle many simultaneous clients on a web server. Originally written about trying to handle 10,000 clients on a Gigabit Ethernet connection back in the late 90s, but this is still a problem today ...
Last week I published a blog post on using YubiKey for OS Logins. Since then I've had a request from inside HP to create a blog post on using the YubiKey NEO with GnuPG which is another thing I have done with my NEO.
At a recent meeting HP's Advanced Technology Group has been agreeing on standards for working with git, covering mainly the collaboration and versioning aspects. Today I will share with you how I do this in my Open Source projects which has some crossover with the group's work.
I was surprised by the recent announcement that MySQL are going to start to conceal the hidden function calls in their C connector. Surprised because although this is great news I had expected them to do this years ago. Working for HP's Advanced Technology Group I realise I take ...
