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[Old] Dave Gauer ☛ coreutils - ratfactor
This package is not what I had in mind when I started this project! It’s quite a large collection of utilities and it’s going to take me a while to get through them all.
I’m going to simply tackle each executable in alphabetical order.
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Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ My new toy: April 1 syslog-ng performance tests
Almost 15 years ago, Balabit had a campaign, stating that syslog-ng could process 650k messages a second. Now I am happy to present 7 million EPS (events per second). Timing the announcement to April 1 is not a coincidence :-)
While the 650k EPS measurement was true, it was misleading. This value was measured right after syslog-ng 3.2 introduced multi-threading, in lab environment, under optimal circumstances, using synthetic log messages. However, there was no fine print explaining this, just the statement that syslog-ng could process 650k EPS. It was fixed after a while, but it took years to recover from the effects of this marketing campaign, and engineers ten years later still had a nervous breakdown when someone mentioned “650k”. Why? Because from that moment, everyone expected syslog-ng to collect logs at that message rate in a production environment with complex configurations. Which was of course not the case.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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PostgreSQL ☛ pg_ivm 1.14 released
IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the release of pg_ivm 1.14.
Changes since the v1.13 release include:
What's Changed
Fix a bug in the maintenance of outer join views that include cross joins (Yugo Nagata)
When an outer join view has a cross join in its children, incremental maintenance could not be performed properly.
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GNU Projects
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Programming/Development
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Rust
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Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 645
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!
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