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When to use Bazel?
Learn about the benefits and challenges of using Bazel, Google's open-source monorepo build system, from experts who have experience with it. D...
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 3,470 posts.
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Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift
Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back
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Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (2014)
Many beginning Python users are wondering with which version of Python they should start. My answer to this question is usually something along the lines…
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Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
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Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)
Steve Huffman talks about Reddit’s approach to data storage in a High Scalability post from 2010. I was surprised to learn that they only have two tables in their database.
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Fuyu-8B: A multimodal architecture for AI agents
We’re open-sourcing Fuyu-8B - a small version of the multimodal model that powers our product.
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Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js
There’s an article on highscalability that’s talking about the move from Rails to node.js (for completeness: its sister discussion on Hacker
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Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice
How the Golang concurrent GC achieves low latencies in real-time systems: a visualization of the algorithm and an empirical comparison with other languages.
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The state of gRPC in the browser
gRPC 1.0 was released in August 2016 and has since grown to become one of the premier technical solutions for application communications. It has been adopted by startups, enterprise companies, and open source projects worldwide. Its support for polyglot environments, focus on performance, type safety, and developer…
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Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
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Modernizing the DOM Tree in Microsoft Edge
The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser pipeline. However, its history and evolution is far from a simple story. Over the past three years, we’ve embarked on an in-flight refactoring of the DOM in Microsoft Edge, with our eye on
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The borrow checker within
This post lays out a 4-part roadmap for the borrow checker that I call “the borrow checker within”. These changes are meant to help Rust become a better version of itself, enabling patterns of code which feel like they fit within Rust’s spirit , but run afoul of the letter of its law . I feel fairly comfortable with…
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The Rust compiler has gotten faster again
I worked on Rust part-time for several years at Mozilla. During that period I regularly summarized how the compiler’s performance had improved. For example: 2017-11-12 to 2019-07-24.
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WebAssembly: A New Hope
What is WebAssembly, and what does it mean for the web?
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Functional Programming using JavaScript
There is no clear, widely-accepted definition of Functional Programming. It is a collection of related featues which cohere well into a very useful style of programming.
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Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)
So, you want to improve the performance of your deep learning model. How might you approach such a task? Often, folk fall back to a grab-bag of tricks that might've worked before or saw on a tweet. "Use in-place operations! Set gradients to None! Install PyTorch 1.10.0 but not 1.10.1!"
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The Internals of Postgres – Concurrency Control
Concurrency Control is a mechanism that maintains atomicity and isolation, which are two properties of the ACID, when multiple transactions run concurrently in a database.