The Open Infrastructure Foundation's Kata Containers 2.0 is both much smaller and faster than its earlier version. (more…)

Learn about some of the unique features of the Rust programming language. (more…)

An exploration into the transition from Node.js to Rust for Bearer's log ingestion service. (more…)

Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptog... (more…)

During an ongoing argument in a chatroom between some folks about how “zomg systemd is ruining everything”, I decided to look at some init system history. I learned a cool tidbit of information from a HN comment1: apparently systemd’s design was inspired ... (more…)