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FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization library
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
SIMD Vectorization in Julia
A portfolio of HPC tools help data scientists, researchers, and developers efficiently build cross-architecture applications.
Where KDE is Going – Part 1
This article explores where the KDE community currently stands and where it is going. Frameworks, Plasma, KDE e.V., Qt5, KDE Free Qt Foundation, QtAddons - you heard some of these terms and want to know what all the fuss is about? A set of articles on the Dot aims to bring some clarity in the changes and constants of…
Popular Myths about C++, Part 3
[For your winter reading pleasure, we're pleased to present this three-part series of new material by Bjarne Stroustrup. Part one is here , part two is here . Today we complete the series just in time for the holidays. Enjoy. -- Ed.]
Static checking of units in Servo
Web browsers do a lot of calculations on geometric coordinates, in many different coordinate systems and units of measurement. For example, a browser may need to translate a position expressed ...
Django 1.7b1 released
Posted by James Bennett on March 20, 2014
PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience
One of our core beliefs at Heroku is that developers do their best work when the development process is as simple, elegant, and conducive to focus and flow
Habits of a Happy Node Hacker
This post is from 2013 - check out the update! For most of the nearly twenty years since its inception, JavaScript lacked many of the niceties that made...
Porting rr to x86-64
(TL;DR: rr from git can record and replay 64-bit programs. Try it for yourself !)
AngularJS Style Guide
Discover why we chose AngularJS style guide for flawless code organisation and optimisation.
An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we've built ...
Go Concurrency Patterns: Context
An introduction to the Go context package.