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Introducing DataFrames in Spark for Large Scale Data Science
Introducing Apache Spark's DataFrame API for easier, efficient big data processing and data science applications.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 432 posts.
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New ELF Linker from the LLVM Project
We have been working hard for a few months now to rewrite the ELF support in lld, the LLVM linker. We are happy to announce that it has reached a significant milestone: it is now able to bootstrap LLVM, Clang, and itself and pass all tests on x86-64 Linux and FreeBSD with the speed expected of an LLVM project.
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Introduction to Microservices
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go
My colleague Loren Segal shared the blog post below. As you can see, he’s really excited about the new AWS SDK for Go! — Jeff; Today we are announcing the first Developer Preview Release of the AWS SDK for Go (v0.6.0). If you have not been following along with development, the AWS SDK for Go […]
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AWS CodeCommit
We announced AWS CodeCommit last November (see New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment) at AWS re:Invent. I am happy to announce that it is now generally available and that you can start using it today. Let’s do a quick refresh on the CodeCommit feature set before taking the service for a spin. CodeCommit […]
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Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
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The Making of Gyroscope Running, a React Native App
The making of our first React Native iPhone app
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Dart 1.9
Asynchronous programming is everywhere – user interaction, network access, file I/O. Dart simplifies and enhances these scenarios with the...
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Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
Computer scientists at MIT have developed a program called Helium that can automatically revamp and fine-tune old code, without needing the original source, in a matter of hours or even minutes.
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Master Concurrent Processes with core.async
One day, while you are walking down the street, you will be surprised, intrigued, and a little disgusted to discover a hot dog vending machine. Your scalp tingling with guilty curiosity, you won’t be able to help yourself from pulling out three dollars and seeing if this contraption actually works. After accepting…
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LLVM 3.6 Release Notes
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.6. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages
Great news from the JetBrains team: today we're announcing the release of IntelliJ IDEA 15!As always, the new IntelliJ IDEA release brings a rich set of new features, better user interface, more bui
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Fix your damned data races
Nathan Froyd recently wrote about how he has been using ThreadSanitizer to find data races in Firefox, and how a number of Firefox developers — particular in the networking and JS GC teams — have been fixing these.
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