Daily Shaarli
August 29, 2021

This post shows how HTTP/2 solved bottlenecks between frontend and storage nodes in LinkedIn's distributed object-store.
»A survey commissioned by industrial giant Honeywell showed that roughly a quarter of facility managers have admitted suffering a breach of operational technology (OT) systems in the past year.«
The author explains why high-percentile latency is not a good way to measure efficiency.
»Suffice it to say, if you work someplace with enough machines, there's probably some way for you to get root on all of them if you can hit them with a handful of packets. I've seen it happen far too many times at enough companies to expect things to stay secure. I'm not talking about buffer overflows and stuff like that, although those exist too. I mean just straight up asking a service to please run a command for you (as root), and it gladly complies.«