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How Allegro reduced latency outliers by 82% by switching to #XFS:
https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/03/kafka-performance-analysis.html
"'Using a com…

Unlocking Kafka's Potential: Tackling Tail Latency with eBPF
At Allegro, we use Kafka as a backbone for asynchronous communication between microservices. With up to 300k messages published and 1M messages consumed every second, it is a key part of our infrastructure. A few months ago, in our main Kafka cluster, we noticed the following discrepancy: while median response times for produce requests were in single-digit milliseconds, the tail latency was much worse. Namely, the p99 latency was up to 1 second, and the p999 latency was up to 3 seconds. This w…

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf…

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft
The complete list of undrafted free agents signed

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Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

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sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Historic Texas wildfire consumes over 500,000 acres as blaze rages on
The #Smokehouse #Creek fire, the second largest wildfire in Texas to date, has consumed more than 500,000 acres in Texas’s Panhandle area since it ignited on Monday.
The fire is currently at 0% containment, with several Texas counties sti…

Jerry Jones might've given away Cowboys' top second round target of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_mightve_given_away_cowboys_top_second_round_target_of…

Very excited to see this collaboration between 2 of the most interesting research & scholarly communication infrastructure initiatives out there. This stellar cast of scholars & infrastructure builders will undoubtedly be pushing the limits in fascinating ways. This is a project worth following. Bravo!
From: @…

COPIM (@copim@hcommons.social)
The second pilot project is: Database as Book and Lively Community Archive: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/database-book-launch which will build a “database as book” to support an emergent collective of critical STS scholars in Kenya in collaboration with the Research Data Share Collective, African Minds, and Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).

Andy Reid, Chiefs expected to begin contract negotiations this week: Sources https://theathletic.com/5300848/2024/02/26/andy-reid-chiefs-contract-negotiations/

Andy Reid, Chiefs expected to begin contract negotiations this week: Sources
Following the Chiefs' 2020 Super Bowl win, the team signed Reid to a six-year extension.

Dallas Cowboys Pick Hilariously Compares Himself To LeBron James https://www.yardbarker.com/general_sports/articles/dallas_cowboys_pick_hilariously_compares_himself_to_lebron_james/s1_17150_40291747

Dallas Cowboys Pick Hilariously Compares Himself To LeBron James
The Dallas Cowboys suffered a sizable loss during free agent this offseason when long-time left tackle Tyron Smith departed. He signed a free agent deal with the New York Jets, creating a void in the trenches in Dallas. While a free agent addition wasn’t made, Dallas wasted little time filling that void in the 2024 NFL Draft. With their first-round pick, No. 29 overall, the Cowboys selected Oklahoma offensive tackle Tyler Guyton. Guyton is a very intriguing pick for a first-rounder given his …