Ernestas Poškus

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The Leadership Maxims and Laws of Genghis Khan Sun, Aug 21, 2022

Spam Taxonomy Fri, Nov 12, 2021

Searching for Build Debt Experiences Managing Technical Debt at Google Thu, May 27, 2021

Wormhole: Reliable Pub-Sub to Support Geo-replicated Internet Services Sun, May 23, 2021

Swim Scalable Weakly Consistent Infection Style Process Group Membership Protocol Fri, May 14, 2021

Harvest Yield and Scalable Tolerant Systems Fri, May 7, 2021

Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems Thu, May 6, 2021

A Five Stage Model of the Mental Activities Involved in Directed Skill Acquisition Thu, May 6, 2021

IO with io_uring Tue, Jun 9, 2020

Amplification Hell: Revisiting Network Protocols for DDoS Abuse Sun, Jan 6, 2019

Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism Thu, Mar 29, 2018

Write Behind Logging Thu, Jan 11, 2018

B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN Sun, Jan 7, 2018

Testing Vue.js dynamic <head> meta tags Wed, Dec 20, 2017

Elasticsearch more nodes with fewer servers Wed, Nov 15, 2017

Sharding out Elasticsearch Wed, Nov 15, 2017

Socket statistics Tue, Nov 14, 2017

Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks Sun, Nov 12, 2017

Bitcoin a Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System Thu, Oct 19, 2017

Attacking Branch Predictors to Bypass ASLR Thu, Sep 14, 2017

Cooperative Task Management without Manual Stack Management Thu, Aug 10, 2017

Analyzing the Security of Traffic Infrastructure Thu, Aug 3, 2017

/proc/meminfo - memory usage statistics Mon, Jul 31, 2017

Scaling Memcache at Facebook Thu, Jul 27, 2017

Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer Thu, Jun 29, 2017

slabtop - kernel slab cache information in real time Wed, Jun 28, 2017

Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database Thu, May 25, 2017

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm Thu, Apr 20, 2017

LIRS: An Efficient Low Inter-reference Recency Set Replacement Policy to Improve Buffer Cache Performance Thu, Mar 9, 2017

Serving fresh assets using Nginx location rewrite Wed, Mar 8, 2017

Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg Thu, Feb 9, 2017

Aerospike: Architecture of a Real-Time Operational DBMS Sun, Jan 29, 2017

Approximating Data with the Count-Min Data Structure Thu, Dec 29, 2016

TAO: Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph Thu, Dec 15, 2016

Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols Thu, Dec 1, 2016

SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services Thu, Nov 24, 2016

The Interaction of Buffer Size and TCP Protocol Handling and its Impact Thu, Nov 17, 2016

Replication Under Scalable Hashing: A Family of Algorithms for Scalable Decentralized Data Distribution Thu, Nov 10, 2016

Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store Sun, Nov 6, 2016

Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Thu, Nov 3, 2016

Generating configuration from Ansible variables Thu, Nov 3, 2016

Testing Ansible on multiple platforms Sun, Sep 25, 2016

Ownership is theft experiences building an embedded os in rust Thu, Aug 25, 2016

On the fly garbage collection Thu, Aug 25, 2016

Queues Are Databases Fri, Aug 12, 2016

An Argument for Increasing TCP’s Initial Congestion Window Thu, Aug 4, 2016

Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center Thu, Apr 28, 2016

Tiny LFU highly efficient cache admission policy Fri, Apr 22, 2016

Container based operating system virtualization Tue, Apr 19, 2016

Golang dynamic struct decoration Thu, Jan 28, 2016

Setup Rust Racer with multiple Rust versions Tue, Sep 15, 2015

Readability tests Sat, Apr 4, 2015

Programming languages in bytes Sun, Mar 29, 2015