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PHP 7.2.0 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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React v16.2.0: Improved Support for Fragments
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. React 16.2 is now available! The biggest addition is improved support for returning multiple children from a component’s render method. We call this feature fragments: Fragments look like empty JSX tags. They let you group a list of…
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Kotlin 1.2 Released: Sharing Code Between Platforms
Members of our community have translated this blog post into several languages: Today we're releasing Kotlin 1.2. This is a major new release and a big step on our road towards enabling the use of
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Population-based training of neural networks
Neural networks have shown great success in everything from playing Go and Atari games to image recognition and language translation. But often overlooked is that the success of a neural network at a particular application is often determined by a series of choices made at the start of the research, including what…
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Unit Testing Doesn’t Affect Codebases the Way You Would Think
I did yet another study on 100 codebases, this time to see the effects of unit testing. The results surprised me, and I'm guessing they'll surprise you.
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Improving Ruby Performance with Rust
After rewriting just a few of the slow methods for my Rails site in Rust
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How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres
Distributed transactions are one of the meanest, baddest problems in relational databases. This post explains why distributed transactions are hard and how the Citus database supports distributed transactions by employing features like distributed deadlock detection, 2PC, and streaming replication in Postgres.
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User experience design for APIs
Writing code is rarely just a private affair between you and your computer. Code is not just meant for machines; it has human users. It is meant to be read by people, used by other developers, maintained and built upon. Developers who produce better code, in greater quantity, when they are kept happy and productive…
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Extensions in Firefox 58
With the release of Firefox Quantum on November 14, 2017, we officially entered a WebExtensions-only world for add-on development. While that event was certainly the news of the day, Firefox ...
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Monotonicity Types: Towards a Type System for Eventual Consistency
A few weeks back, we published a draft of an article entitled _Monotonicity Types_. In it, we describe a type system which we hope can aid the design of distributed systems by tracking monotonicity with types....
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Speed up your Python using Rust
Rust is a language that has no runtime so it can be used to integrate with any runtime; You can write modules in Rust and call using Python
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Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics
At Kolide, part of what we do is build a client-server system that facilitates the management of large, isolated installations of an open-source tool called osquery. While I’ve written and spoken about osquery in the past, in this post I want to focus on how we use Go to solve many of the challenges we face building…
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A Sampling of Anti-Decompilation Techniques
Traditional (assembly level) reverse engineering of software is a tedious process that has been made far more accessible by modern day decompilers. Operating...
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PyAnnotate – Auto-generate type annotations for mypy
For statically checking Python code, mypy is great, but it only works after you have added type annotations to your codebase. When you h...
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Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Node.js v9.2.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Writing interactive stories with Ink in Unity
Why I chose Ink as one of the core technologies for my game.
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How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
While Mozilla has been preparing to launch Firefox Quantum, its fastest browser yet, some notable developments have happened with WebAssembly, the binary f
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Mono's New .NET Interpreter
Mono is complementing its Just-in-Time compiler and its static compiler with a .NET interpreter allowing a few new ways of running your code.