Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...

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Google is giving up yet another of its internal projects to the open-source world. Its latest contribution is called Seesaw, and it’s described as a load-balancing platform based on Linux built using ...

It’s easy to forget that embedded Linux can’t do everything for all embedded developers. While it is suitable for some applications with many megabytes of memory and powerful processors, there are a ...