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More on GVFS
After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. What problems are we solving? GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems: A large number of files – Git doesn’t naturally work well with hundreds of thousands or millions of files in your working set…
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Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
Apple’s WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at the W3C to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the Web, and to develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU features including low-level graphics and general purpose computation.
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Container orchestration: Moving from fleet to Kubernetes
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Sending Data
This post discusses monitoring and tuning the Linux networking stack in great detail with the focus on sending data.
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TensorFlow Fold: Deep Learning with Dynamic Computation Graphs
Posted by Moshe Looks, Marcello Herreshoff and DeLesley Hutchins, Software EngineersIn much of machine learning, data used for training and inferen...
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YC Research: Universal Healthcare
Four years ago, Watsi [http://Watsi.org] became YC’s first non-profit. They’ve since raised over $7.5 million to fund life-changing healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries. Today, we’re excited to announce that YC Research is funding Watsi for a project that will study using technology to improve the…
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State of Clojure 2016 – Results and Analysis
Welcome back to the annual State of Clojure survey results. This year we held steady in our response rate as 2,420 of you took the time and effort to weigh in on your experience with Clojure - as always, we appreciate that time and effort very much. And, as always, thanks to Chas Emerick for starting this survey 7…
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MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3
In the past year and a half, MongoDB has put a good deal of work into improved read safety, enabled by the adoption of their new replication protocol and the WiredTiger storage engine. Dirty reads were addressed in 3.2 by introducing a majority read concern , and stale reads were addressed with the introduction of the…
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Hans Rosling has died
We are extremely sad to announce that Professor Hans Rosling died this morning. Hans suffered from a pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed one year ago. He passed away early Tuesday morning, February 7, 2017, surrounded by his family in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Violating Terms of Use Isn’t a Crime, EFF Tells Court
Have you ever violated a website’s terms of use, such as by using something other than your real name on a website that requires one, or by sharing your account password with a family member when doing so is prohibited? Probably. Have you ever clicked “I agree” without actually reading the terms in...
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Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack
Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast and performant as possible with Vue and webpack.
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Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing
If you’re searching for good Selenium IDE alternatives, you’re not alone. People discuss record-playback IDEs all the time, on most testing automation forums that I’ve seen. And, in fact, there are several modern cloud-based platforms that seem to record-playback right.
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Sandstorm is returning to its community roots
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Rocket, Rust Web Framework, v0.2: Managed State and More
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
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RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
When the company behind RethinkDB shut down last year, a group of former employees and members of the community formed an interim leadership team and began devising a plan to perpetuate the RethinkDB open-source software project by transitioning it to a community-driven endeavor. Today’s announcement by the Cloud…
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Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015)
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
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Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones
When meeting with founders for the first time I sometimes hear, “We’re a Series A company.” Meanwhile, YC alumni I talk to tell me that their angel investors regularly ask them, “When are you going to raise a Series A?”. I’d like to make the point that success isn’t the same as raising a round of financing. Quite the…
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Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloads
This month, the Google Play team in our London office was hyped to welcome back Anamaria Cotîrlea, a former intern who is now a full-time ...
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Federal Court Says Public Safety Laws Can Be Locked Behind Paywalls
Everyone should be able to read the law, discuss it, and share it with others, without having to pay a toll or sign a contract. Seems obvious, right? Unfortunately, a federal district court has said otherwise, ruling that private organizations can use copyright to control access to huge portions of...
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Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed
Cards Against Humanity purchased a Super Bowl ad, but it was not successful.
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IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C
On January 30, 2017 the combination of IDPF and W3C was completed (see W3C press release ), and IDPF has ceased operations as a membership organization. This website is now an archive. For current information about EPUB and more visit https://www.w3.org/publishing/ .
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Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google
Planet plans to acquire the Terra Bella busines,s including the SkySat constellation of satellites.