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Introduction to Microservices
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking Cookies
Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says: "The NSA’s ability to...
Russ Cox: Go, Open Source, Community
Why is Go open source, and how can we strengthen our open-source community?
Understanding Neural Networks Through Deep Visualization
Research portfolio and personal page for Jason Yosinski
Homemade Memristor (2011)
Modified curve tracer is applying AC voltage. Horizontal axis represents voltage and the vertical axis represents current. In both cases, the curve always passes through zero voltage and current. This requirement must be met in order to be classified as a memristor.
CRISPR Gene Editing
CRISPR is a recently discovered genomic tool that could potentially revolutionize genetic modification and editing, including gene silencing, editing, activating, and other crucial functions. It has made a big splash in the synthetic biology community, and mentions of CRISPR have started cropping up elsewhere in the…
DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
Live-Coding Blender with Hy
Chris McCormick - News
When ‘int’ is the new ‘short’
Posted by Mark Brand, Truncator of IntegersThis is going to be a quick post, just describing a pa...
Why is finance so complex? (2011)
Lisa Pollack at FT Alphaville mulls a question : “Why are we so good at creating complexity in finance?” The answer she comes up with is the “ Flynn Effect “, basically the idea that there is an uptrend in human intelligence. Finance, in this view, gets more complex over time because financiers get smart enough to…
I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders
On May 4th, my book Hello Web App was released. Since then, hundreds of people used it to learn how to build web apps using Python and Django.
Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go
Here at Malwarebytes we are experiencing phenomenal growth, and since I have joined the company over 1 year ago in the Silicon Valley, one my main responsibilities has been to architect and develop several systems to power a fast-growing security company and all the needed infrastructure to support a product that is…
Porting third-party programs to TempleOS
Experienced professional software engineer based in York, UK
How I became an artist
The 12 year journey of my art thus far.
Minister No More
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage. Like all struggles for democratic rights, so too this historic rejection of the Eurogroup’s 25th June ultimatum comes with a large price tag attached. It is, therefore, essential that the great…