Day 2 of Monster Scale Summit! Today, we have @skamille.themanagerswrath.com, @antirez.bsky.social, @tigerbeetle.com (Joran), @dominiktornow.bsky.social, @teivah.dev, Avi Kivity, and lots more. Guaranteed 🔥🔥🔥 www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...

Inside the 2026 Monster Scale Summit Agenda The agenda for the 2-day Monster SCALE Summit (free + virtual) is now live! Take a look, register, and start choosing your own adventure across the 50+ tech talks. Here’s a peek at what you can expect...

We’re hosting an absolutely amazing lineup of speakers and talks this year. Take a look and pls join us if anything looks interesting. It's free + virtual. www.scylladb.com/2026/02/17/m...

“Writing for Developers” is featured as @manning.com's deal of the day today. The 45% discount also applies to “A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book” by @willkurt.bsky.social and “Everyday Data Visualization” by @callmedeeray.bsky.social . mng.bz/Y7oK

The ScyllaDB Community Forum is the place to have conversations and ask questions about everything NoSQL and ScyllaDB related. In addition to the latest releases, we also have users sharing their specific use cases and data models Join us on the chat: forum.scylladb.com/t/say-hello-...

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New podcast on the Writing for Developers book-- hosted by the super fun crew at @overcommitted.dev 👇

A screenshot featuring responses from Aaron Francis, antirez, Charity Majors, and Eric Lippert

Why write engineering blogs? Here’s how some of our favorite bloggers responded to the question “Why did you start blogging and why do you continue?” writethatblog.substack.com/p/why-write-...

A screensot of engineering blog posts featured this month on writethat.blog

@sarna.dev's latest blog post picks for writethat.blog...

I’m writing another book! // @ericlippert.com

Zig's new async I/O // Andrew Kelley

Corrosion // @sockpuppet.org, Peter Cai (@fly.io)

How I reversed Amazon's Kindle web obfuscation because their app sucked // Cats with power tools

Monster Scale Summit Monster Scale Summit is a highly technical conference on extreme scale engineering and data-intensive applications.

If we get one more AI-generated Monster Scale Summit submission, I will cry. Humans, please -- apply to speak! This is P99 CONF's sister conference, and we're open to talks on extreme scale engineering and distributed system challenges. www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...

Next week’s Monster Scale Summit will be scary good. Keynotes include @kelseyhightower.com, @martin.kleppmann.com, @chris.blue, @gwenshap.bsky.social, @rstephens.me & @adamhjk.me. Given the price of admission (zero) and travel time (also zero), there’s really no excuse to miss this!

Why Teams Are Ditching DynamoDB, by @cardeneti82118@x.com and @hopugop.bsky.social (@thenewstack@hachyderm.io):

Contributing to this beautiful thread 😂bsky.app/profile/hopugop.bsky.soc...

no bills to pay, dgaf

ScyllaDB 2024.2 Introduces New Efficiency & Elasticity via “Tablets” - ScyllaDB Scaling operations with Tablets are up to 30X faster while reducing network costs by up to 50%

The tablets feature
of ScyllaDB is very impressive. It simplifies maintenance and looks like a solid foundation for possible autoscaling www.scylladb.com/2024/12/03/e...

Linux for PlayStation 2 (2002)
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#Linux #console #Sony #Playstation #PS2 #Playstation2 #OperatingSystem #OS #Geek

I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission.

The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().

It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.