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Re:The Lines of Code That Changed Everything (2019) on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:48PM (#37092348)
Not to mention Let's Encrypt...
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:41AM (#34724593)
"What explains why so many companies are laying large numbers of their workforce off? The answer is simple: copycat behavior, according to Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business."

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...

Let's Encrypt caches around 100k OCSP requests every second

"Since Let’s Encrypt serves 300 million domains, we cache around 100,000 OCSP requests every second. Historically, Let’s Encrypt could cache about 6% of this traffic on its own. But were we to experience traffic much higher than that, we’d risk Let’s Encrypt falling over. Not an ideal situation for us, or the Internet."https://www.abetterinternet.org/documents/2022-ISRG-Annual-Report.pdf

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