We’re a small team of engineers right now, but each engineer has experience working at companies who invested heavily in observability. While we can’t afford months of time dedicated to our tooling, we want to come as close as possible … Read more
This post will demonstrate how to use eBPF to trace encrypted connections that operate over TLS (or its predecessor, SSL). TLS has become the standard for securing microservice communication, so any production-ready tracing tool should be prepared to handle encrypted … Read more
Ray Tracing Games II is now available to download for free via Apress. This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of … Read more
This article is a compilation of my recent conference talk at o11ycon, a conference put out by Honeycomb. It includes a blog post that Honeycomb author Eric Thompson shared that summarized the talk. The blog article, reshared was originally published … Read more
ServerMessageSpawnBaseline(entity_num=0, model_num=1, frame=0, colormap=0, skin=0, origin=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), angles=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)) ServerMessageSpawnBaseline(entity_num=1, model_num=59, frame=0, colormap=1, skin=0, origin=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), angles=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)) ServerMessageSpawnBaseline(entity_num=8, model_num=2, frame=0, colormap=0, skin=0, origin=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), angles=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)) ServerMessageSpawnBaseline(entity_num=9, model_num=3, frame=0, colormap=0, skin=0, origin=(0.0, 0.0, … Read more
I’ve been thinking about garbage collection in Rust for a long time, ever since I started working on Servo’s JS layer. I’ve designed a GC library, worked on GC integration ideas for Rust itself, worked on Servo’s JS GC integration, … Read more
December 20, 2020 The Apple M1 available in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13”, and Mac Mini has been the focus of a ton of benchmarking writeups and blog posts about the new chip. The performance overall, and especially performance/watt, … Read more
In 2017, when a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower wanted to extract classified government documents from her work computer, she sought refuge in the printed page. Maybe she thought physical paper would be safer from digital surveillance than an email. … Read more
Flash isn’t exactly dead. At least not yet, according to Jason Scott. “There’s a narrative right now that Flash is now gone forever. And it isn’t; what’s gone is Flash being a default part of the web,” he says. An … Read more