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OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
What do OT (Operational Transformation) and CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) really mean? And which one should you use in your real-time collaboration solution?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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Highlights from Git 2.25
Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.
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Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
How we reverse engineered Discord’s call protocol and found it being MITM-ed by Discord.
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Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud
What if you could reboot an entire server in seconds in response to an active attack and get a brand new memory layout? While not feasible under linux it's an uniquely unikernel feature.
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Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes
YAML sucks! This blog post explains why existing tools hardly ease this pain, and what we at Grafana Labs did about it.
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Translating Quake 3 into Rust
The Rust-loving team at Immunant has been hard at work on C2Rust, a migration framework that takes the drudgery out of migrating to Rust. Our goal is to make safety improvements to the translated Rust automatically where we can, and help the programmer do the same where we cannot. First, however, we have to build a…
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Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
I worry that Git might be the last mass-market DVCS within my lifetime. Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes, and I don't see how you replace such a thing.
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Clojure: `every-pred` and `some-fn`
This post is part of Advent of Parens 2019 , my attempt to publish one blog post a day during the 24 days of the advent. Ah clojure.core , it’s like an all you can eat hot-pot....
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Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment
In this experiment we created the same app five times, each time with a different framework. The frameworks I used were native Android, native iOS, Flutter, Xamarin Forms and React Native
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A single character code change
Or four one liners every Java programmer should know
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Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)
In this article series, we look at Elasticsearch from a new perspective. We'll start at the 'bottom' (or close enough!) of the many abstraction levels, and gradually move upwards towards the user-visi...
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Why are my Go executable files so large?
Golang executable files get too large for reasons that are not relevant to server software with long-running processes, like CockroachDB, and its incurred space cost is particularly inconvenient for large, feature-rich programs.
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
I work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where we use very big data to find cures for childhood cancers. To move data around the internet at very high speeds, we are forced to use a proprietary software suite called Aspera. If somebody could make a Free Software alternative, the future of the internet would be way…
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Ruby Lazy Enumerators
Ruby provides support for lazy loading enumerators, allowing efficient processing of large or infinite sequences.
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NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs
In this post, we show you how easy it is to introduce back doors that are easily missed by project owners… leaving your code insecure.
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Ruby 2.7
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.7.0.
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Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
Here's a cheap trick to make a difference: focus on the bare essentials and get rid of the rest. It's easy to be different, because others are mostly doing
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How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to "undo" your mistakes. In Git, "undo" can mean many slightly different things.
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Bazel 2.0
A new major version of Bazel, Bazel 2.0 has just been released. In particular, it brings some important flag flips that did not make it into Bazel 1.0 .
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Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
We will demonstrate how to do a complete port of a web application from React + Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust .
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Squashed Bugs, with Failure Rate Heatmaps
TiDB is the distributed SQL database built for AI agents. Vectors, transactions, and analytics in one engine with ACID guarantees and elastic scale.
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Ember.js Octane Edition
Ember 3.15 is Octane! Curious what Octane means for web development? This blog post will get you oriented. For a write up of the technical details (upgrade strategies, deprecations, new Ember Data...
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A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python
Dive deep into OCR with Tesseract, including Pytesseract integration, training with custom data, limitations, and comparisons with enterprise solutions.
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How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes
This year, we released the 1st official version of our API. Our API versioning scheme allows us to providing apps with stable behavior and predictable timelines.
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Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.
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When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub
We explore how databases be used as effective Pub/Subs in Go, demonstrating how SQL's unique features can enhance message-driven applications.