Ok let’s face it. Clock speeds no longer govern the pace at which computer processors improve. Instead we see increased transistor density and higher core counts. Translating to software terms, this…

Serverless "Application" Framework for Python. Contribute to serverless-operations/jeffy development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

We’ve released a new version of Cirron that can now trace syscalls and record performance counters for individual lines of Ruby code, just like it could already do for Python (more here and here). It makes it very easy to quickly inspect what’s happening ... (more…)

Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests pe... (more…)

Update #1: 6 Feb 2017  httpstat needs curl. Originally, this HowTo would freshly compile curl from the github source. Now, this HowTo shows how to reuse the existing curl package from the Ubuntu re…...