Cross-Functional #185: Why we can't have nice things!
While benchmarking his system, Andres Freund, a developer at Microsoft, noticed an anomaly that unravelled into a scenario worthy of a cyber espionage thriller.The core of this story focuses on XZ Utils, a seemingly innocuous open-source library for file compression and decompression in Linux environments...
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7 个月Thanks for the shoutout - some great posts on there! Humbled to be one of them ??
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7 个月There are some great tidbits in here! I'm always eager to find new ways to advocate for lean and continuous discovery.