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With OTP-21 came a new logging library in Erlang called logger . It comes as an attempt to offer a built-in alternative to long successful projects such as lager , which have seen years of battle testing and tweaking for performance. I've seen few articles written about the new logger and what it can do, so I've…
Sixteen years later, ES6/ES2015 introduced Unicode mode (the u flag) , sticky mode (the y flag) , and the RegExp.prototype.flags getter .
A short essay about Fortran in the modern world.
One of my favorite Amazon Leadership Principles is Customer Obsession. When we launched AWS Lambda, we focused on giving developers a secure serverless experience so that they could avoid managing infrastructure. In order to attain the desired level of isolation we used dedicated EC2 instances for each customer. This…
Infrastructure code lessons from a HashiConf 2018 talk by Gruntwork, with the video, the slides, and a condensed written version of five key takeaways.
Practical advice on getting the most out of handling errors "the Go way" from the creator of imgproxy and Overmind.
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly
WebAssembly is all the rage these days. And for good reasons. It’s pretty exciting to see many compiled languages adopting a common intermediate represe...
Using graph theory and Ryanair route data to find cheap multi-city flight loops through Europe.
An interesting, and (as it turned out) doomed, method of combining async and synchronous Python code
Having created my first app using Flutter, I weigh up the technology’s pros and cons against React Native
Maybe the most misunderstood design pattern.
A common problem that we have seen come up in several projects, is how to plot large datasets over time in an efficient manner using Qt. Here is one approach that we have found to work well in some situations, maybe it helps you out in your project.
Map any 3D point on or above a triangle-subdivided sphere to a triangle index in constant time, without recursion, table lookups or complicated branching logic.
Most widely-used programming languages have at least one regular conference dedicated to discussing it. Heck, even Lisp has one . It’s a place to talk about the latest developments of the language, recent and upcoming standards, and so on. However, C is a notable exception. Despite its role as the foundation of the…
CUDA 10 support has just landed in ClojureCUDA with the latest version 0.6.0.
🦑 Informal definitions of terms used in concurrency modeling
While working on my current project, the constant creep of increasing compilation times was becoming more and more noticeable. Even after throwing my usual tools at the problem, the total time was still over 7 seconds.
Why use something bloated when you could use something minimal.
More or less all the big APIs are RESTful these days. Yeah, you can quibble about what “REST” means (and I will, a bit) but the assertion is broadly true. Is it going to stay that way forever? Seems unlikely. So, what’s next?
Get a better understanding of WebSockets are, how they work, and why they're ideal for building high-performance realtime apps.
This is a tutorial on building your own shell using Rust, in the spirit of the build-your-own-x list. Creating a shell is a great way to understand how the shell, terminal emulator, and OS work together.
How I wrote GoAWK, how I tested it, and how I measured and improved its performance.
