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Usability Improvements in GCC 9
The upcoming GCC 9 release will have improved diagnostic messages, simpler C++ errors, more accurate error location reporting, and optional machine readable output for developer tools.
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The rise of wgpu
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives…
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Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes
What is a microservice? What is Kubernetes for? In this post, we try to explain microservices, containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes
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PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class
This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.
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Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
In this article, we explain how to scale Elixir to handle 100k connections per second.
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Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and JavaScript Workers.
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Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 2.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, used by thousands of teams as an alternative to Slack, HipChat, Mattermost and IRC. Zulip’s unique topic-based threading combines the …
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Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
Update as of November 18, 2021: The version of PySyft mentioned in this post has been deprecated. Any implementations using this older version of PySyft are…
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License Plate Detection Without Machine Learning
Learn how to detect vehicles license plates without heavy Machine Learning techniques, just standard image processing routines.
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Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
Since our first release in 2002, there have been 69 security bugs in Firefox’s style component. If we'd had a time machine and could have written this component in Rust from the start, 51% wouldn't have happened. That said, Rust is not foolproof. Developers still need to be aware of correctness bugs and data leakage…
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The art of writing eBPF programs
A blog about the process of writing Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) programs and what’s going on under the hood at the kernel-level.
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Go 1.12 Released
Go 1.12 adds opt-in TLS 1.3, improved modules, and more.
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Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir
Mint is a new low-level HTTP client that aims to provide a small and functional core that others can build on top.
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Useful Postgres Extension: Pg_stat_statements
Inspired by a talk in the PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM, a post on the usefulness of the pg_stat_statements extension to Postgres and why every Postgres developer should have it in their toolbox. With sections on getting started, and how to extract insights with pg_stat_statements.
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Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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Moving from Ruby to Rust
How we migrated our Tier 1 service from ruby to rust and didn’t break production.
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Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
Today, we are excited to open several repos on GitHub, and invite everybody to join us on GitHub.
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Introducing draft pull requests
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.
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PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha
The PyPy team is proud to release the version 7.0.0 of PyPy, which includes three different interpreters: PyPy2.7, which is an interp...
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