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Microservices without the Servers
Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager At LinuxCon/ContainerCon 2015 I presented a demo-driven talk titled, “Microservices without the Servers”. In it, I created an image processing microservice, deployed it to multiple regions, built a mobile app that used it as a backend, added an HTTPS-based API using Amazon API…
Dead Code Should Be Buried – Why I Didn't Contribute to NLTK
Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it's so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently.
Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity
Go 1.5 is the first step toward a new low-latency future for the Go garbage collector.
Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9
The rollout of iOS 9 is expected to come this Fall and will introduce a new privacy feature called App Transport Security (ATS) to enforce ...
Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting
Python supports multiple ways to format text strings. These include %-formatting 1, str.format() 2, and string.Template 3. Each of these methods have their advantages, but in addition have disadvantages that make them cumbersome to use in practice. This...
The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
Today we are announcing some major upcoming changes to Firefox add-ons. Our add-on ecosystem has evolved through incremental, organic growth over the years, but there are some modernizations to Firefox ...
GCC is moving to git
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
Go 1.5 is released
Go 1.5 adds a new, much faster garbage collector, more parallelism by default, go tool trace, and more.
Official Android 6.0 SDK and Final M Preview
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
CPAN is 20
Perl hackers have now, as of today the 16th August 2015, been uploading Perl modules onto CPAN via PAUSE for 20 years. Andreas König, who did that first upload, is still releasing to CPAN, and as I write this his most recent upload is the same module that was first released to CPAN.
Android libstagefright still exploitable
Update (2015-08-13 1:16pm CST): We’ve been in contact with Zimperium and are working with them to provide coverage for detection of this flaw through their Stagefright Detector app. They have been very responsive (more so than the affected vendor) and we plan to alert them of similar flaws we’ve recently discovered…
Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
Ember.js 2.0 Released
Ember 2.0 is not a traditional major release. After thirteen point releases in almost two years, we're taking a turn to focus entirely on sweeping out built-up cruft as a...
Integration over Invention
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