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Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly
The first announcement of MoonBit
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Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa
On Sunday, August 6, an undersea landslide in one of the world’s longest submarine canyons knocked out two of the most important submarine cables serving the African internet. The loss of these cables knocked out international internet bandwidth along the west coast of Africa. In this blog post, we review some history…
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SUSE to go private
EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE
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Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests
Fuzz tests have helped us catch many critical bugs. Should your team consider fuzz testing? They're the best thing to happen to our application tests so far.
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Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
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Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI
New updates to Search Generative Experience (SGE) help people easily learn new things and understand key concepts while searching online.
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Debian celebrates 30 years
Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...
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Mullvad Browser
We have partnered with Mullvad VPN to develop the Mullvad Browser - a Tor Browser without Tor
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Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.
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Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
Pattern matching and exhaustive switches come together to enable functional style data models that blend seamlessly with Dart’s…
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How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg
At Terraform Industries we believe in a future where energy is universally cheap, clean, and abundant. We’re developing a scalable electrolyzer to deliver the cheapest possible green hydrogen…
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Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store
I'm sorry if the following post comes off as a bit angry. I'm writing this off the cuff and am very aggravated by the situation. Today I received an email from Google Play Support stating that Luck be a Landlord has been geo-blocked in the following countries:
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OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
The entire team has joined OpenAI.
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Uses and abuses of cloud data warehouses
Data Warehouses are great for many things but often misused for operational workloads.
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Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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Modern CSV version 2
And I think you’ll love it. I focused on several areas: Improved UI and user experience Faster performance Useful features Updated documentation For Mac users, Native Apple Silicon (ARM – M1, M2) compatibility If that’s all you need to know, you can buy a license here. Or if you already have a version 1 license, you…
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The Future of Terraform Must Be Open
The future of Terraform must be open: after HashiCorp switched to the BSL license, Gruntwork introduces OpenTF, its plan to keep Terraform open source.
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We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…
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Continuous batching to increase LLM inference throughput and reduce p50 latency
In this blog, we discuss continuous batching, a critical systems-level optimization that improves both throughput and latency under load for LLMs.
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Global Perspective on U.S. Health Care
This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-income countries.
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Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media
Late Friday, some of the world’s largest record labels, including Sony and Universal Music Group, filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive and others for the Great 78 Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm records that are 70 to 120 years old. As a non-profit library, we…
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Java 21: First Release Candidate
This release is the Reference Implementation of version 21 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 396 in the Java Community Process.
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Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues
A link between vision issues in older adults and an increased likelihood of dementia.
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Stefan Tilkov has died
INNOQ Deutschland mourns the loss of its co-founder and CEO, Stefan Tilkov
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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.