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Glommio (pronounced glom-io or |glomjəʊ|) is a cooperative thread-per-core crate for Rust & Linux based on io_uring. It allows you to write asynchronous code that takes advantage of rust async/await, but it doesn’t use helper threads anywhere.
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
A look at how we identify and address bugs
Accelerating TensorFlow 2 performance on Mac
In our announcement last week, we briefly mentioned this new physics engine we have been working on during the past 5 months.
Julia 1.5 is gaining a cool new bug reporting capability, leveraging mozilla's rr project to automatically create fully-reproducible bug reports
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the Computer History Museum is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the “Smalltalk Zoo.”
The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.2…
Suppose you want to visit every state capitol exactly once, traveling on highways. Which route is shortest? Which route is longest? What is the mean and standard deviation of all the routes?
When I read that Google is forcing developers to migrate from Google Sheets API v3 to v4, I was mad. Here's why.
I’m pleased to announce the availability of the first release of SIMD Everywhere (SIMDe), version 0.5.0, representing more than three years of work by over a dozen developers.
The Lisp Badge is a self-contained computer with its own display and keyboard, based on an ATmega1284, that you can program in uLisp:
The story of debugging a mysterious Julia segfault.
We've got a lot to get through the past two months. Headlining it all is that we're happy to announce support for a new compressed disc format developed specifically for Dolphin: RVZ. This lossless format allows for near top of the line game compression without compromising the integrity of ISOs,…
Microservices — a definition
CockroachDB is PostgreSQL compatible in order to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge.
Last year, we released the experimental “Elements for VS Code” extension, giving developers the option of embedding the browser developer to
For Go 1.15, we propose three minor language cleanup changes.
Over the past four years, we've been working hard on rebuilding our desktop client's sync engine from scratch. The sync engine is the magic behind the Dropbox folder on your desktop computer, and it's one of the oldest and most important pieces of code at Dropbox. We're proud to announce today that we've shipped this…
We look at how to utilize both, views and materialized views, within Ruby on Rails with a real-world sized dataset of hockey teams and their top scorers.
Interactive C++ for Data Science In our previous blog post “Interactive C++ with Cling” we mentioned that exploratory programming is an effective way to reduce the complexity of the problem. This post will discuss some applications of Cling developed to support data science researchers.
How we leveraged a textbook data structure in our core platform and achieved a 15x speed up for a key data processing step.
Regular expressions – commonly known as RegExps – are a powerful and heavily used tool for manipulating strings in JavaScript. This post describes how we updated the RegExp engine in ...
