Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-quicksilver-configuration-distribution-at-internet-scale/
Archived Link: https://archive.vn/XOf9X
Great insight into Cloudflare impressively re-implementing their tooling from scratch for insanely fast performance — "2.5 trillion read requests and 30 million write requests a day on over 90,000 database instances across thousands of servers".
Link: https://reason.com/2020/03/30/the-world-must-not-mimic-chinas-authoritarian-model-to-fight-covid-19/
Archived Link: https://archive.vn/1Cqt0
An article that delves into the considerations surrounding the reaction to the current COVID-19 pandemic in the context of societal freedoms and human rights.
Link: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/23/debug-z-index-3d-view-edge-devtools/
Archived Link: https://archive.vn/9Q3f2
How cool would it be to inspect a webpage's elements in a 3-dimensionally stacked DOM? Microsoft Edge's team considered that question and just went with it.
Link: https://xy2.dev/article/re-bab/
Archived Link: https://archive.vn/jk8IT
Superb technical writeup about how the mechanics of anti-adblocking functions, and the measures that are taken by adblockers to be one step ahead. I was surprised at the logical simplicity of the techniques used to identify changes in user/browser/script interactions.
Link: https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/
Archived Link: https://archive.vn/BlwWT
Good read for anyone interested in the workings of the `htop` utility, or for those who would like a quick refresher.
Link: https://webrtchacks.com/sfu-cascading/
Archived Link: https://archive.vn/kEV3U
An article by one of the developers over at Jitsi that gives great thoughts and solutions for a problem that reads as such: "Deploying media servers for WebRTC has two major challenges, scaling beyond a single server as well as optimizing the media latency for all users in the conference."