• Testing an internal proxy server today, a little thing I wrote to manage filtering, routing, caching, logging, and statistics for API requests and web pages.
  
  It seems to work pretty well - it has a 90th percentile latency of 2.5ms and a 99th percentile latency of 4.1ms.  Given that it's written in Python and uses a MySQL server for management, that's not a bad result at all.
  
  
• Is the Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme the right board for your next Thirdripper build?  (AnandTech)
  
  With quad channel DDR4-4733, 16-phase power, an internal 1.7" OLED display (which I cannot find any pictures of or information about), 10Gbase-T, WiFi 6, eight SATA ports, five PCIE 4.0 x4 M.2 slots, one USB 20 port, seven USB 10 ports, six USB 5 ports, and four PCIe 4.0 x16 slots arranged as x16/x8/x16/x8 it just might be.
  
  It does cost $850 though.
  
  
• Apple's new Mac Pro has zero SATA ports, zero drive bays, and zero M.2 slots.  What storage it does have is not replaceable or upgradable, and only runs at 3.4GB per second.
  
  Enter the OWC Accelsior 4M2.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's just a PCIe card with up to 8TB of M.2 SSD on it, with a PCIe x8 interface, a built-in PCIe switch, and performance up to 6.7GB per second - nearly twice as fast as the Mac Pro.
  
  Price with 8TB is $1600.  Price for 8TB of SSD from Apple is $2600.  Price for a 7.68TB Micron 5200 ECO is $1400.
  
  So while not exactly cheap, it's not overpriced either.
  
  
• The Sonnet M.2 4x4 is much the same thing, except it's PCIe 3.0 x16, has no switch chip (as far as I can tell) and runs 10% faster.  (9to5Mac)
  
  Not sure what the limiting factor is here; they tested it with four Samsung 970 EVO drives, which should, in aggregate, be able to deliver 10GB per second on writes and 14GB per second on reads, rather than the 6.8 and 7.2 they measured.
  
  
• Ampere will release their 80 core Arm server CPU in Q1 of 2020.  (AnandTech)
  
  It uses the same Arm-designed architecture as Amazon's Graviton 2 and is manufactured on the same TSMC 7nm process; the big difference is that it will be available to customers other than Amazon.  Oh, and it has 25% more cores.
  
  
• Got a Ring camera?  Never too late to burn down your house.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• It's also never too late to burn your fish.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• It's also never too late to burn your Lyft e-bike.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Oh wait, that already happened.
  
  
• How to handle a million websockets with Go.
  
  Step One: You don't need to handle a million websockets.
  Step Two: Seriously.
  Step Three: Get a DigitalOcean account, request an increase in droplet limits, and run 100 $5 droplets handling 10,000 websockets each.
  
  
• Protocol Buffers are wrong.  (Reasonably Polymorphic)
  
  I looked at these a while back when I needed to handle 10,000 messages per second.  We found another solution.
  
  
• Twitter has banned animated PNG attachments because they don't know to fix bugs anymore.  (ZDNet)

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