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Many Earth system models used to project future climate changes are missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: accurate representation of permafrost dynamics. Thawing permafrost in the North, which contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, is one of the biggest uncertainties in climate predictions. However, only two out of eleven models used in […]
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In mid-December, after weeks of intense performance analysis, the author was surprised that another company had figured out the solution for their slow cluster. In 2023, Clyso was approached by a company looking to transition their HDD backed Ceph cluster to a 10 petabyte NVMe deployment. The cluster had to be spread across 17 racks […]
In the wintertime, we love to embrace the playful side of the season by bringing a bit of the digital world of Minecraft into our own backyard. Using giant LEGO-shaped storage bin lids, we press them into the snow to create perfect 2×2 LEGO bricks made entirely of snow. The key is to press consistently […]
Approximately a year ago, the author moved into a new apartment and discovered a mysterious touchscreen with no indication of its purpose. After some investigation, they learned that it is part of an energy monitoring system. They also found a second device connected to the electricity meter. The devices communicate using WiFi, which is common […]
The author of this web content explains how to estimate read memory bandwidth using a C++ program. By allocating a large memory region and reading it quickly, one can determine their bandwidth. For multithreaded applications, using multiple threads where each reads a section of the memory region can provide insight into potential bandwidth. The author […]
SourceHut recently experienced a 170-hour outage due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack targeted SourceHut’s primary datacenter in PHL and eventually led to an emergency migration to the AMS datacenter. The response from the upstream network in PHL caused more damage than the actual attack. The team worked diligently to restore services and […]
An unexpected decision by the United States to increase the minimum legal size of lobsters has raised concerns in the Canadian industry. This move could disrupt the live lobster trade between the two countries, which is worth $545 million to Canada. The decision was triggered by surveys in the Gulf of Maine that showed a […]
Timothy Barker, a former Band Manager at Duncan’s First Nation in Canada, claims to have been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce fraud. Known as “triangulation fraud,” this type of scam involves a consumer unknowingly purchasing an item online from a seller who does not actually own the item. Instead, the seller uses stolen […]
At Twilio, we take blogging seriously and use a dashboard to analyze our blog content’s performance. Initially, we used SQLite as the database for this dashboard, but as our blog grew with more articles and users, we started experiencing slower query results. So, we decided to test PostgreSQL as an alternative to improve performance. Using […]
In this article, the author shares their observations and experience with an open source repository. They discovered an impressive React UI library and framework in 2021 that had unique features and was well-organized. However, in mid-2022, the founder expressed their dislike for CSS frameworks and made changes to the library, including the removal of a […]