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Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort
We're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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DeWitt Clause, or can you benchmark %database% and get away with it
The DeWitt clause lets database vendors forbid publishing benchmarks. What the clause is, which vendors still use it, and what you can legally publish.
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Connect: A Better gRPC
Use Connect to build simple, stable, browser and gRPC-compatible APIs.
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Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA
Two-Factored Authentication (2FA) is now enforced for maintainers of the top-500 packages, by dependents, on the npm registry. To learn more about configuring 2FA, see Configuring two-factor authentication. To learn…
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Lunatic brings Erlang's principles to WebAssembly
In this month’s episode of the Functional Futures podcast, our guest is Bernard Kolobara – the creator of Lunatic, an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly. Listen to the episode to find out how Erlang's guiding principles helped Bernard create a runtime that's fast, robust, and scalable.
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Range joins in DuckDB
DuckDB has fully parallelized range joins that can efficiently join millions of range predicates.
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NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm's impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings.
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Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs
Announcing Fly Machines
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Next.js Layouts RFC: Nested routes and layouts, designed for Server Components
Nested routes and layouts, client and server routing, React 18 features, and designed for Server Components.
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Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
Shopify shares some of the lessons we learned and solutions we built in order to run Airflow at scale.
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C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more
C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.
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Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15
Deep dive into the sort performance improvements in PostgreSQL 15, along with charts to visualize what types of queries will be faster. Includes speedups in single column sorts, reduced memory consumption with generation memory context, specialized sort routines for common datatypes, & use of k-way merge.
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Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
GOV.UK dropped their jQuery dependency from their front end. You'll never guess what happened. (Yes, you will.)
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.NET 7 introduces Native AOT
.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.
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The Code Is the To-Do List
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
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Deno 1.22
Deno 1.22 changes default type-checking behavior, removes Deno.emit() API, adds Response.json() API, adds Deno namespace to workers by default, and more
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How Airbnb Built “Wall” to prevent data bugs
Gaining trust in data with extensive data quality, accuracy, and anomaly checks.
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Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps
It’s been about a year since our last update regarding Manifest v3. A lot has changed since then, not least of which has been the formation of a community group ...
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Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
In this article, Lago's cofounder Raffi gives an overview of the technical challenges we faced while implementing a hybrid pricing model at Qonto, and what we learned during this journey.
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Erlang/OTP 25.0 Release
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Dolphin Progress Report: February, March, and April 2022
After a long wait, the Progress Report is back! This time it wasn't so much from a lack of content, but from a lack of content creators. The past three months had illnesses hit one of our writers and the other had a very challenging move. Even with these major hurdles jumped, we're not even close to 100% yet. It's…
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Super-Structured Data: Rethinking the Schema
Dealing with real-world data is hard. You often end up stuck between the document model of JSON and the relational model of SQL databases. There's a better way. It's called super-structured data.
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Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
You can now output and group custom Markdown content on the Actions run summary page.
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Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
Shopify is investing on Ruby on Rails at scale by funding high-profile academics to focus their work towards Ruby and the needs of the Ruby community.
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Java record pattern matching in JDK 19
Enhance the Java programming language with record patterns to deconstruct record values. Record patterns and type patterns can be nested to enable a powerful, declarative, and composable form of data navigation and processing. This is a preview language feature .
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The other kind of staff software engineer
In this article, the author explores the differences between line and staff software engineers. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ea...
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SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo
Most people use the mattn/go-sqlite3 package to interact with SQLite in Go. This package uses cgo and bundles the SQLite C amalgamation files with the Go source.
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DeepMind: A Generalist Agent
Explore a selection of our recent research on some of the most complex and interesting challenges in AI.