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Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming

Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in the Linux 7.3 kernel. While that's a celebration on its own, Vock is pursuing more improvements still for bettering the Linux GPU driver video memory…

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The Outbox Pattern Is Not Enough

The textbook version of the transactional outbox is tight. You save the domain entity and an outbox row in one local transaction.

  • Throughput limited by fixedDelay and batchSize values, not measured
  • Alerting mechanism may trigger false positives during normal load
  • Terminal state of outbox pattern is invisible, failed events unhandled

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