TIL 2020-12-22 Microsoft Security Analysis of Solorigate - Microsoft’s technical analysis of the SolarWinds supply chain attack and defense strategies. doit - Automation tool - Python-based task automation framework for build processes and workflow management.
TIL 2020-12-21 Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg - Blog post revealing YouTube’s use of the open-source FFmpeg library for video processing. Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection - Instagram Engineering’s approach to optimizing Python garbage collection for better memory efficiency in multi-process environments.
TIL 2020-12-19 Distributed Consensus Reading List - Comprehensive collection of academic papers on distributed consensus algorithms including Raft, Paxos, and Byzantine fault tolerance.
TIL 2020-12-18 Remove Background from Image – remove.bg - AI-powered service for automatically removing backgrounds from images. When Free Software Isn’t (Practically) Superior - GNU Project discussion on the philosophy of free software beyond practical considerations.
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