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Why we’re switching to calendar versioning
One small step for Cockroach Labs, one giant leap for our release numbering.
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The Fargate Illusion
I’ve been building a Kubernetes based platform at $work now for almost a year, and I’ve become a bit of a Kubernetes apologist. It’s true, I think the technology is
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What Is a Manifold?
In machine learning, the term manifold is thrown around a lot—in fact, there’s even a branch of machine learning dealing with learning the structure of manifolds. Said branch is aptly named manifold learning . Inspired by fantastic visualizations of shapelet mining algorithms , this post aims to give a visual…
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Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distributed Database
It has been almost 9 months since I started my sabbatical work with the Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB team. I knew what I signed up for then...
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Languages I want to write
I spent this weekend writing a Forth designed for music synthesis, and it reminded me what a joy writing programming languages is! I have a big list of programming language experiments that I want to try, but it's mostly been in my head so far. Here's a living document of some of the languages I want to write.
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I miss Facebook
I'm 35. Before Facebook, I had to use different tools depending on whom I wanted to chat with. I'm not talking about the early era of the Internet, but rather the period after everybody started getting online. Chat was just getting popular, but it
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Web Developer's Guide to DNS
Every developer should know the basics of DNS, the critical protocol at the heart of the web.
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South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
A compulsory recycling scheme in South Korea has dramatically cut the amount of food the country throws away. Here's how it works.
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Infrastructure as Code, Part One
IaC uses code to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure. In part one of this IaC miniseries, I will introduce you to the basic concepts and explain some of the benefits.
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The Guide to Writing Online
Think better. Grow your audience. Accelerate your career.
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Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours
Nodecraft moved 23TB of customer backup files from AWS S3 to Backblaze B2 in just 7 hours, and saved big on egrees fees with Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance.
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What design tools get wrong
Modern design tools, of both the vector and code kind, are amazing pieces of software that in recent years have transformed the design profession, but none of them seem to really understand the context that we currently design for. The remnants of fixed-dimensions are still visible in all and the tools are not helping…
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My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (2012)
Apple aren't the only company with products that can feel tingly or buzzy to a light touch, it is all due to the widespread use of switched...
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Slack Is Not Where 'Deep Work' Happens
How did you start your day today? Probably reached for the phone. Turned off the alarm. Glanced at the time. Scrolled through the Slack...
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Your terminal is not a terminal: An Introduction to Streams
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
What this function does is to give you a lumninance-correct grayscale version of any matplotlib colormap. I've found this useful for quickly checking how my plots might appear if printed in black and white, but I think it's probably even more useful for stoking the flame of the internet's general rant against jet .
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Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
This article has been translated into Spanish: Por qué debes aprender más lenguajes de programación (incluso si no los vas a utilizar)
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Apply Unix Principles to Write Testable Microservices
Microservice architecture paradigm fits well within the Unix’s first principle/philosophy: “Make one program do one thing well”. We l...
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Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?
The native web platform has caught up with frontend frameworks and will slowly render them obsolete.
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A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history
Three months ago, a German court ruled that part of a Wikipedia article—found to be defamatory in a previous court decision—had to be removed from both the article and its associated revision tracker, known as a “history” page. (History pages allow anyone to see how a Wikipedia article has developed since they were…
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Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program
We are delighted to announce that Godot Engine has been awarded USD 50,000 by Mozilla as part of the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) Mission Partners program. This award will be used to fund the work of some of our core contributors on three different work packages, all linked with Mozilla's mission of furthering…