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Rust: Beyond the Typechecker
This post will be different from the previous ones, since I’m going to present some of the early results of my work as a PhD student at the Prosecco team in ...
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GLFW 3.3 Is Released
New GLFW release announcement.
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The Tragedy of Given-When-Then
When all you have is a hammer, everything in the world starts to look like a nail. Twenty five years of doing analysis and helping others do analysis has shown me that there are at least three diff…
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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
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Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Learning a Regression
A great moment has arrived. We are going to apply our neural networks implementation to a regression problem. The network is going to learn a known function,...
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The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause
A question that is frequently occurring among my SQL training’s participants is: What’s the difference between putting a predicate in the JOIN .. ON clause and the WHERE clause? I can d…
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Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs
Heroku has many public API endpoints. See how Heroku uses JSON Schema to test and document our Platform API–and how it helped us uncover an unexpected bug.
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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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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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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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Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help (2018)
Did you use to have some sort of intuition for what “lvalue” and “rvalue” meant? Are you confused about glvalues, xvalues and prvalues, and worry that lvalues and rvalues mi…
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PostgreSQL Count(*) Performance Improvements
count(*) is often quite slow in PostgreSQL. This article explores how to count rows faster using approximations and other tricks.
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JQuery 3.4.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011)
Sorting Japanese is not only difficult—it’s an unsolved problem. This seems hard to believe if you are not familiar with the complexities of processing Japanese digitally. But what is trivially easy in English is impossible in Japanese, even with the amount of computer power we have available today.
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Cloud Code – A new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code
Cloud Code, a new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code, makes it easy to rapidly build, debug, and deploy to Kubernetes, using the tools you already have.
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A fork() in the road
The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness and is now a liability. We catalog the ways in which fork […]
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Announcing Building Git
In 2017, I wrote a series of articles about diff and merge algorithms, and promised that one day they would form part of a book about the Git version control system. In 2018 I didn’t write anything at all on this blog, and that’s because I was writing that book.
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Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack
Today we’re announcing the beta of Cloud Run, our new serverless compute platform for containerized apps with portability built-in.
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2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
We've been working hard for months , and today the Developer Survey results for 2019 are live. This year marks the ninth year we’ve published our annual Developer Survey, and nearly 90,000 developers took the 20-minute survey earlier this year.
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Clojure Concurrency Tutorial
In this tutorial, you'll learn 16 ways for doing concurrency in Clojure including how to start threads and how to communicate between them.
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Winter Is Coming for Java Updates
Winter is coming for Java updates with no free public updates in sight! Get the support you need with Zulu Community and Zulu Enterprise.