By Serdar Yegulalp A recently revised JavaScript library now makes it possible to run untrusted JavaScript code, in either Node.js or a modern browser, in a sandboxed environment that provides a controlled way …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Unikernel power comes to Java, Node.js, Go, and Python apps
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By Serdar Yegulalp An open source project sponsored by EMC allows applications written in C/C++, Java, Go, Node.js, and now Python to be transformed into unikernels — operating systems that do nothing but …read more Source:: OpenSource
Is Microsoft publishing its own FreeBSD? Yes and no
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By Serdar Yegulalp It sounds like another one for the Hell Freezes Over file: Microsoft has released a version of FreeBSD 10.3, an edition of the liberally licensed Unix-like OS. But as with …read more Source:: OpenSource
Dropbox wants to speed up Python with Pyston 0.5
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By Serdar Yegulalp After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is …read more Source:: OpenSource
Redis plants the seeds for an open source ecosystem
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By Serdar Yegulalp In-memory database and caching solution Redis, used to boost everything from Spark to Amazon Web Services, adds a new, long-promised feature called Redis Modules. Announced at RedisConf …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux scheduler bug got you down? Here’s a fast fix
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By Serdar Yegulalp The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore system from making proper use of all cores for heavily multithreaded loads, according to a lecture and <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource
Simple succeeds: Visual Studio Code at 1.0
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By Serdar Yegulalp Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s open source, cross-platform development environment powered by Node.js and the Blink layout engine has been upgraded to a full 1.0 release after approximately a …read more Source:: OpenSource