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Up To 12.8x Improvement Observed For gup_test With New Linux MM Patches

Linux developer Rik van Riel has pulled off some nice Linux kernel optimizations over the years and the Meta engineer has been working on another one around batching of look-ups with Linux's follow_page_mask() that is used for translating virtual addresses to the corresponding struct page...

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Donut Panic 🍩 — Building an Interactive CSS-Only Donut

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art . 🍩 Inspiration I write about WordPress plugins and PHP standards for a living, so when DEV dropped a "Comfort Food" theme…

  • Users create custom donuts with CSS and minimal JavaScript
  • Donut components include layered rings, glaze, hole, and shine
  • Serve animation moves donut from kitchen to plate with easing

How Netflix Scaled Its Real-Time Service Map

Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale.

  • Employed Apache Pekko Streams to manage backpressure, preventing dropped records or incomplete maps.
  • Replaced gRPC with server-sent events (SSE) for lighter-weight, reactive backpressure management.

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