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Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF

The sched_wakeup and sched_wakeup_new hooks are invoked when a process changes state from ‘sleeping’ to ‘runnable.’ They let us identify when a process is ready to run and is waiting for CPU time. During this event, we generate a timestamp and store it in an eBPF hash map using the process ID as the key. […]

NADRA chairman restored | The Express Tribune

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) division bench on Tuesday overturned a previous order from a single bench that had declared the appointment of Lt General Munir Afsar as chairman of the NADRA illegal and unlawful. The division bench restored Lt General Afsar to his position. The bench, led by Justice Ch Muhammad Iqbal, addressed […]

Confrontation, per se | The Express Tribune

The government and the PTI have crossed swords. Imran Khan's decision to shut the door of dialogue in reaction to the crackdown on PTI stalwarts, wherein legislators were abducted from inside the parliament's premises, has taken the political volatility to new heights. The Islamabad district administration went in for a witch-hunt against the PTI and […]

Riverbed Data Hydration — Part 1

by: Xiangmin Liang, Sivakumar Bhavanari, Amre Shakim A deep dive into the streaming aspect of the Lambda architecture framework that optimizes how data is consumed from system-of-record data stores and updates secondary read-optimized stores at Airbnb. In our previous blog post we introduced the motivation and high-level architecture of Riverbed. As a recap, Riverbed is […]

Simulator-based reinforcement learning for data center cooling optimization

We’re sharing more about the role that reinforcement learning plays in helping us optimize our data centers’ environmental controls. Our reinforcement learning-based approach has helped us reduce energy consumption and water usage across various weather conditions in our data centers.   Meta is revamping its new data center design to optimize for artificial intelligence and the […]

A 5-Minute Intro to Buying Stocks

Stocks can seem as confusing as differential calculus. If you have money to invest, but you’re not learning how and where to do so, then you’re probably wasting valuable resources that could help you grow your nest egg or save for your children’s future. And you don’t want to do that. This piece is merely […]

Govt accepts IMF bar on new SEZs | The Express Tribune

ISLAMABAD: In a major development, Pakistan has accepted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) condition that it will not establish any new special economic or export processing zone and tax incentives already availed by the existing zones will not be extended after expiry. The IMF’s condition under the $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), which is […]