Insight
Starlink Beams 42 Million GB to Earth Every Day
A SpaceX engineer explains how the company uses a fleet of 9,000 lasers in the Starlink constellation to deliver high-speed internet worldwide.
Heisenbug: The Bug That Changes While Being Debugged
There are code bugs that change state or disappear for reasons unrelated to the code itself. These are known as "Heisenbugs".
Ubisoft Uses AI to Detect Bugs Before They Happen
Using Artificial Intelligence techniques, Ubisoft has developed a tool that allows them to detect bugs in their video games.
The Flowplay Case: Refactoring 1.4 Million Lines of Flash
Faced with the imminent death of Flash, the company Flowplay had to refactor their two Flash games to another technology while generating nearly $1M per month.
How Google App Engine Helped Super Mario Run
To support millions of users on the launch day of Super Mario Run, Nintendo relied on App Engine to implement its back-end.
Could Facebook Be Hosted on AWS?
Facebook is currently a fairly complex technological behemoth. What technological challenges would hosting it on AWS involve?
The Developer Who Deleted Production on Their First Day
Many things can happen on your first day as a developer, but one of the worst is accidentally deleting the entire database.
Fuck: Scanning 183 Million Git Commits
Using BigQuery and GitHub data, someone checked how many commits include the word "Fuck".
GVFS, Microsoft's Solution for Giant Repositories
Microsoft has created GVFS to improve Git when working with repositories of hundreds of gigabytes, a problem that large companies face daily.
ReDoS: Attacking Servers Using Regular Expressions
By exploiting edge cases in regular expressions we can also bring systems down. The ReDoS attack is based on exactly this.
The Day Netflix Refused to Integrate the $1 Million Algorithm
After awarding $1 million to the winners of a competition, Netflix decided not to use their algorithm.
How to Save Almost 2000 Terabytes a Day on the Internet by Fixing Font Awesome
Font Awesome is used by 73 million websites. Reducing its size would save nearly 2 petabytes daily.
World of Warcraft: When a Single Line of Code Can Cost You Dearly
A simple command in the chat could allow an attacker to take control of their victim\'s interface in World of Warcraft.
How Twitter Deploys New Versions of Its widgets.js File
Twitter explains how they manage to deploy their famous widgets.js to millions of users simultaneously in a safe manner.
How Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers Using WebSockets
The developers at BugReplay explain how Pornhub is able to serve ads using WebSockets to clients with ad blockers installed.
Knight Capital Was Losing $10 Million a Minute Due to a Software Bug
Due to an update that did not reach all systems, Knight Capital lost $460 million in a matter of minutes.