November Tech Picks
“Random picks from all over the Internet”.
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Take It to the Limit: Considerations for Building Reliable Systems Read it if you want to know why it’s better to be explicit and set limits like queue max size, max msg size, etc. upfront.
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In search of a simple consensus algorithm Critique of Raft and introduction to leaderless consensus algorithms plus some benchmarks and analysis.
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Anatomy of a Program in Memory Really nice pictures. Feel free to skip if you read at least one OS book.
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Не число “Числа с плавающей запятой обманчиво привычны и из-за этого гораздо более коварны, чем кажется.”
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PRACTICAL PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY Very good guide on gpg.
Go
- REPRODUCING GO BINARIES BYTE-BY-BYTE Reproducable builds are very important. As an example, recent Bitcoin Gold case.
Blockchain
- BIP001: “Unlimited Edition”. Vlad Zamfir
Nice talk about cryptoeconomics questions.
- Quantifying Decentralization “We must be able to measure blockchain decentralization before we can improve it.” But this might be an interesting read for non-blockchain folks.