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Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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GTK 3.99
This week, we're releasing GTK 3.99, which can only mean one thing: GTK4 is getting really close! Back in February, when 3.98 was released, we outlined the features that we wanted to land before making a feature-complete 3.99 release. This was the list: Event controllers for keyboard shortcuts Movable popovers…
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.NET 5.0 – New APIs
Get started with the new exciting APIs introduced with .NET 5.0. Understand the intention of engineers that added them.
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Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video]
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
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Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
How Google prepares for and protects against the largest volumetric DDoS attacks.
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Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus
Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
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PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 13 is now [available for download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/). This …
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Jepsen: Scylla 4.2-rc3
Scylla is a distributed wide-column 1 database which originated as a C++ port of Cassandra, aiming for improved performance. It supports both Cassandra- and DynamoDB -compatible APIs, and is intended for high-throughput, low-latency workloads, including analytics, messaging, and other time-series data.
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Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera
It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews. Looking closer, however, you being to unravel a space-age mystery.
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Mental models for designers (2019)
At Dropbox, our Brand Guidelines help us infuse everything we make with identity. From icons to illustration, logos to language, this collection is the foundation for how Dropbox looks, feels, and sounds like Dropbox.
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A New Back End for Cranelift
This post will describe my recent work on Cranelift as part of my day job at Mozilla. In this post, I will set some context and describe the instruction selection problem. In particular, I’ll talk about a revamp to the instruction selector and backend framework in general that we’ve been working on.
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Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Emerging in Western U.S., Says Study
Scientists say a long-feared megadrought, worse than anything in recorded history, seems to be starting up in southwestern North America.
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Go Developer Survey 2019 Results
An analysis of the results from the 2019 Go Developer Survey.
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Project Loom and Structured Concurrency
Project Loom is one of the major “projects” in which Java is moved forward, alongside the perhaps better known projects Amber and Valhalla. It will bring “virtual” threads with low resource footprint and low cost of blocking to the Java plaform. Here is my annual advent season update, this time with a focus on…
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Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement
Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant…
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How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1
An exhaustive hands-on guide for dealing with N+1 problem in database-backed Ruby or Rails applications that use Active Record and serve the GraphQL APIs
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Updates to form controls and focus
HTML form controls provide the backbone for much of the web's interactivity. They're easy for developers to use, have built-in accessibilit...
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Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13
Fully managed Cloud SQL cloud database service now supports PostgreSQL 13.
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Using SIMD to aggregate billions of values per second
How SIMD instructions make aggregations faster in QuestDB, including benchmark results and a comparison with Postgres.
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Racket 7.8
Racket version 7.8 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ Racket CS may become the default Racket implementation in the next release. With the improvements in this release, Racket CS provides all of the functionality of Racket BC (the curre...
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Two epigenetic regulators interfere with healthy aging
It has long been assumed that lifespan and health are strongly correlated, but although there has been an overall increase in human life expectancy
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The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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New JSX Transform
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Although React 17 doesn’t contain new features, it will provide support for a new version of the JSX transform. In this post, we will describe what it is and how to try it. What’s a JSX Transform? Browsers don’t understand JSX out of the…