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February 27, 2024
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Netflix Releases bpftop: An eBPF-Based Application Monitor

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF to its friends, enables you to run sandboxed programs in a privileged context in the Linux kernel. Netflix and many other companies, such as Google, use it for network monitoring. Now, Netflix has unveiled…Read More

February 26, 2024
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Freenginx: A Fork of Nginx

A volunteer Nginx developer is forking Nginx, the world’s most popular web server, into Freenginx. By Netcraft‘s count, Nginx (pronounced EngineX) is the world’s most popular web server. So when a top Nginx developer, Maxim Dounin, announced he was…Read More

February 23, 2024
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Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot’s promises? You’d better be

Opinion I keep hearing about businesses that want to fire their call center employees and front-line staffers as fast as possible and replace them with AI. They’re upfront about it. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said the company behind Facebook…Read … Continue reading →