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Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. This post was written by Scott Hunter. You all want .NET Core 1.0 RC2, you want a schedule, and you want to go live. Today we’ve got a schedule to share plus some changes that will improve things for everyone in the .NET Community going forward. The…
In this article, we provide a holistic view of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) abstractions by a systematic review of their historical evolution. We discuss some of the key factors that drove the evolution and identify the pitfalls that make them infeasible when building modern applications.
We’ve been building Hydrogen for more than a year. Here’s a look behind the scenes at how we did it, what we learned from making big bets, and what it was like building a new framework from the ground up on experimental technology.
How does one go about creating a gtk+ working application? Is it even possible? Seriously. TL;DR: The Gtk+ ABI is broken so often that distribution-supplied binaries rarely work. * * * Imagine it is the time when Gtk+ 3.0 was released. You have a beautiful application with no bugs. For the sake of argument…
This report performs the first public analysis of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The report finds that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS, however some of the modifications have introduced cryptographic weaknesses.
With the latest release, markdown gains programming language like tooling in VSCode
This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.
Hello everyone. I'm proud to release the result of a Facebook-sponsored study on the feasibility of using the RPython toolchain to produce ...
Most teams are curious about fine-tuning and how it might help their AI products, but they don't know what to expect from the process, how to measure success, or where to start.
Enable JavaDoc documentation comments to be written in Markdown rather than solely in a mixture of HTML and JavaDoc @ -tags.
Interactive C++ for Data Science In our previous blog post “Interactive C++ with Cling” we mentioned that exploratory programming is an effective way to reduce the complexity of the problem. This post will discuss some applications of Cling developed to support data science researchers.
Turborepo 1.2 introduces improved task filtering, artifact signing and integrity, human-readable and JSON dry runs, and more!
A deep dive into the infrastructure of .NET Core. Challenges, changes and the future.
Markdoc delivers a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience. It enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content.
All about when to use unstructured data types in Postgres, such as Hstore, JSON, and JSONB. The tl;dr is that the right data type depends on your use case. Here we dig deep into the benefits, and why JSONB became so popular since it first got real and proper support in Postgres 9.4. The B in JSONB stands for better.
How we leveraged a textbook data structure in our core platform and achieved a 15x speed up for a key data processing step.
“Box is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Its platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI.”
How we spent the last 3 years restructuring the AntennaPod code base.
Later this year, we’re going to ship a new version of Microsoft’s tools for F#. This will include support for F# 4.1, featuring important incremental improvements to the language that have been developed in conjunction with F# users and contributors. Our tools will also include a cross-platform, open-source F# 4.1…
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Crunchy Data is excited to release a new extension so you can write Postgres data to Parquet and or pull data from Parquet to Postgres. Craig has the details and sample code.
An overview of major milestones for the V8 project in the past 10 years as well as the years before, when the project was still secret.
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Posted by Tim Graham on Sept. 23, 2015
