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The Collector’s Fallacy

There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself. As knowledge workers, we’re inclined to look for the next groundbreaking thought, for intellectual stimulation: we pile up promising books and articles, and we store half the internet as bookmarks, just so…

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Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3

Aerospike , formerly Citrusleaf, is a distributed, sharded document store designed for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Each record is a map of keys to values, which may be either primitive types (integers, strings, bytes, etc.) or nested collections like lists and maps. Secondary indices are also available…

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Giving Mono Souper Powers

By virtue of using LLVM, Mono has access to a wide suite of tools and optimization backends. A lot of active research uses LLVM IR. One such research project, Souper, tries to brute-force a search for missed optimizations in our emitted code. The .NET community may have software projects that benefit from using Souper…