How Netflix Deploys Code

Netflix, the popular movie streaming site, deploys a hundred times per day, without the use of Chef or Puppet, without a quality assurance department and without release engineers. To do this, Netflix built an advanced in-house PaaS (Platform as a Service) that allows each team to deploy their own part of the infrastructure whenever they want, …

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Java Garbage Collection Distilled

Note: Often Hotspot cannot achieve these targets and will silently continue without warning, having missed its target by a great margin. Latency is a distribution across events. It may be acceptable to have an increased average latency to reduce the worse-case latency, or make it less frequent. We should not interpret the term “real-time” to …

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RetroShare

RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform. It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels via RetroShare.