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Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve
Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul, covers evolutions in Java including, 6-month release cycle, a change to the switch expression in JDK 13 and more.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,294 posts.
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Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
[This article is the companion to my presentation for CodeBEAM America 2024, Elixir is the One-Person Stack for Building a Software Startup. You can download the slides as a PDF or view them in Google Slides .]
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Treat Kubernetes clusters as cattle, not pets
ZITADEL is the identity infrastructure platform that is built for developers and works for all users and applications.
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The Agent SDK
The Agent SDK is the framework we use to build our own managed agents like Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. Define agents in code and deploy them with one command.
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An update on Dart macros and data serialization
We have invested significant time and resources to prototype macros over the past couple years. Unfortunately, each time we solved a major…
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They lied to you. Building software is hard
Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.
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Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig
Zig is a general purpose programming language, meaning that if you have in front of you something that looks like a Von Neumann-ish, Turing-complete machine, you should be able to comfortably program it with Zig. Lately there has been a lot of interest in two such (virtual) machines: BPF and WebAssembly.
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The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
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British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
This year, British Column has moved to year-round Pacific Time. How does that affect date data?
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.NET 7 introduces Native AOT
.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.
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The Reactive Monolith – How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing
Photo by Alex Wong on UnsplashWe all heard that story before: The big monolith which brings so much business value and faithfully serves our customers is starting to slow us down. The product vision is evolving towards reactive features, which means reacting in real time to multiple domain events in the right context…
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Python malware starting to employ anti-debug techniques
First time anti-debug techniques are discovered in PyPI malware. Read how these techniques are implemented, including analysis and tips from JFrog Security Research.
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Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
How we split Feldera into a thousand crates to use every core rustc can get, cutting compile times from 30 minutes to 2.
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Error Handling in Go (2016)
Two commonly perceived problems of the programming language Go are that handling errors is verbose and repetitive parametric polymorphism is not available This post is about the intersection of those problems and Rob Pike’s recommendation on the former.
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WasmGC – Run GC languages such as Kotlin, Java in Chrome browser
There are two types of programming languages: garbage-collected programming languages and programming languages that require manual memory management. With to WebAssembly Garbage Collection, garbage-collected languages can be ported to WebAssembly.
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Debunking that C++ is faster and safer than Rust
Spoiler: C++ isn′t faster or slower — that′s not the point, actually. This article continues our good tradition of busting myths about the Rust language shared by some big-name Russian companies.
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Fighting Rust's Expressive Type System
Herein I share an experienced developer's first foray into a real-world Rust project. It focuses closely on the type system, and the key insights I needed to begin "thinking in Rust". Written for those getting to grips with the language, it will be especially useful if your background isn't functional programming.
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Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
Recent advancements in Cloudflare Python Workers means fast cold starts, comprehensive package support, and a great developer experience. We explain how they were achieved and show how Python can be used to build serverless applications on Cloudflare.
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PHP 7.2.0 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Our Use of Haskell and Elm
Over the last year, our team has built a beautiful and advanced Smart Cities system using functional languages. I wrote this document to explain our technology choices to stakeholders and partners.
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Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code
PartyKit now includes a vector database and access to an embedding model. Here’s a guide on how to use them to build a search engine.
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Bringing Vulkan everywhere
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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JavaScript Performance Updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra
Since we first started work on the Chakra JavaScript engine, it has been our mission and priority to make JavaScript faster for the real-world web, and to continuously improve the experience of browsing in Microsoft Edge (and previously Internet Explorer). We’ve had a very busy year, with highlights like taking Chakra…
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The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call
I did tell you not to do that.
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Libtls – New TLS API from LibreSSL
tls_init , tls_config_new , tls_config_free , tls_config_error — initialize TLS client and server API