Published: 24 July 2021 Tags: haskell
grep is the unexpected poster child for functional programming. Why? Because it "It hides the details of resource manipulation", "It consumes its input lazily", and "It cleans up its resources". In this deep dive, Patrick Thomson uses grep as a model program upon which to base a Haskell lazy I/O streaming implementation.
Published: 24 August 2021 Tags: http2
You run into a different level of problems when you're dealing with petabytes of data. Some of these problems will only be apparent when you actually exceed critical mass. Ze Mao's structured article reads like a report on how the Ambry team recently handled a large scale refactoring of a giant system that became bottlenecked by the frontend.
Published: 19 August 2021 Tags: security
Often times the firewall might be the only thing between you and the big bad web. It's especially essential in Windows, the OS for which the most malicious code exists (by far). James Forshaw's spanning article dives explores the ins and outs of the Windows firewall, starting with a primer on its architecture, continuing onto rules, spelunking into configurations, and concluding with AppContainer network restrictions.