Preface: Apache Kafka was originally developed by Linkedin to solve data pipeline problems, and was later donated to the Apache Foundation as an open source project. Background: Avro facilitates the exchange of big data between programs written in any language. With the serialization service, programs can efficiently serialize data into files or into messages. The…

Preface: Modern Linux systems require large amount of graphics memory to store frame buffers, textures, vertices and other graphics-related data. If a design flaw like CVE-2024-26922 cannot be fixed. It may trigger privilege escalation. Background: So far, GPU-attached bandwidth optimized (BO) memory has been allocated and managed primarily as the result of explicit, programmer-directed function…

Preface: Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license.  It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag).  In addition, it is designed to support distribution across multiple physical…

Preface: Using the C++ new operator, we can allocate memory at the runtime. The new operator in C++ is used for the dynamic memory allocation; It is used to allocate the memory at runtime on heap memory. Background: PyTorch is a deep learning framework open sourced by Facebook in early 2017. It is built on…