June 16, 2015 2:47PM
How to receive a million packets per second
Linux
Tech Talks
Deep Dive
Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: "The Linux network stack is slow! You can't expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!"...
May 11, 2015 11:08AM
CloudFlare "Interview Questions"
Careers
Life @ Cloudflare
Linux
TCP
For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?...
March 05, 2014 12:00AM
It's Go Time on Linux
Linux
Go
DDoS
Google
Attacks
Some interesting changes related to timekeeping in the upcoming Go 1.3 release inspired us to take a closer look at how Go programs keep time with the help of the Linux kernel. Timekeeping is a complex topic and determining the current time isn’t as simple as it might seem at first glance....
October 03, 2013 6:00AM
Ensuring Randomness with Linux's Random Number Generator
SSL
Entropy
Linux
When building secure systems, having a source of random numbers is essential. Without them, most cryptographic systems break down and the privacy and authenticity of communications between two parties can be subverted....