Oracle today announced that it has acquired Ksplice, Inc., the creator of innovative zero downtime update technology for Linux. The transaction has closed.The addition of Ksplice’s technology will increase the security, reliability and availability of Oracle Linux by enabling customers to apply security updates, diagnostics patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting. via Oracle Buys …
How To Safely Store A Password | codahale.com. Summary: use bcrypt.
Opendedup Develops SDFS, a file-system that does inline deduplication. Also see LESSFS.
On one of my boxes, everything seems to work fine, except phpchain. My login no longer worked – seems like it changes the ciphers in some way. Reverting fixed it. Incidentally I recommend using phpchain or similar if you need to store passwords. Do not use a word document or text file!
Qualys has announced the development of IronBee, a new open source project to build a universal web application firewall sensor in the cloud through collective efforts of the community. via IronBee – Open Source Web Application Firewall.
A day in the life of a slow page at Stack Overflow.
Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads | Martin Fjordvald.
Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D (AMZN).
Hazelcast is an open source clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform for Java, which is: Lightning-fast; thousands of operations/sec. Fail-safe; no losing data after crashes. Dynamically scales as new servers added. Super-easy to use; include a single jar. Hazelcast is pure Java. JVMs that are running Hazelcast will dynamically cluster. Although by default Hazelcast …
Scalable SQL – ACM Queue.