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Django 1.8 beta 1 released
Posted by Tim Graham on Feb. 25, 2015
Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectural Design
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Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency
We’ve been working hard over the past five months and are very happy to release Pyston 0.3, the newest version of our high-performance Python implementation. The biggest features of this release ar…
How to Build Your Distributed Database
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
Fix your damned data races
Nathan Froyd recently wrote about how he has been using ThreadSanitizer to find data races in Firefox, and how a number of Firefox developers — particular in the networking and JS GC teams — have been fixing these.
The Emterpreter: Run asm.js code before it can be parsed
I'm excited to announce a new Mozilla Research experiment: the Emterpreter, a pure-JavaScript interpreter that can start running large Emscripten-compiled apps faster than JavaScript engines can, giving developers control over ...
Software Architect – A Role, Not a Job
A structure where software architects work on a team separate from the development team can lead to dysfunction, reduced quality, and poor morale.
Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android
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Coming Soon in HHVM
The next HHVM release, 3.6, is on the horizon. We expect it to be released at the very end of February or in early March. It’s going to be a big release. Not...
Introducing DataFrames in Spark for Large Scale Data Science
Introducing Apache Spark's DataFrame API for easier, efficient big data processing and data science applications.
Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity
<p>Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits,...
Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams
Self-hosted chat for small teams.
60fps on the mobile web
Flipboard launched during the dawn of the smartphone and tablet as a mobile-first experience, allowing us to rethink content layout principles from the web for a more elegant user experience on a variety of touchscreen form factors.
Programmer proverbs
To be a programmer is to learn relentlessly. A short and deep collection of advices.
How I Start: Nim
Nim is a young and exciting imperative programming language that is nearing its 1.0 release. My main motivation for using Nim is its performance / productivity ratio and the joy of programming in Nim. In this guide I’m going to show you how I start a Nim project.
In search of the perfect JavaScript framework
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.