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When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub
We explore how databases be used as effective Pub/Subs in Go, demonstrating how SQL's unique features can enhance message-driven applications.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Some fun with π in Julia
A Pi Day tour of π in Julia: how Julia represents π, computing it with inline assembly and Taylor series (Madhava and Machin), and finding guaranteed bounds with interval arithmetic.
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See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016)
Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and YCombinator alum. He’s here to tell us of a...
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MSW 2.0 – Mock Service Worker
The biggest library release is finally here! Learn more about the changes, motivation behind them, and how to upgrade to the next version today.
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Reverse engineering an e-ink display
We bypass read-out protection on the CC2510
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Introducing Incremental
I’m pleased to announce the release of Incremental (well commented mli here), a powerful library for building self-adjusting computations, i.e., computations...
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Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later
Justin Sheehy discusses whether or not Riak would choose Erlang today.
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Spin 2.0 – open-source tool for building and running WASM apps
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
A discussion of aggregation in PostgreSQL and how it integrates with the design of Timescale’s hyperfunctions.
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Challenges with distributed systems
The hard realities of distributed systems, partial failures, network faults, and unpredictable latency, and how Amazon designs to handle them.
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Population-based training of neural networks
Neural networks have shown great success in everything from playing Go and Atari games to image recognition and language translation. But often overlooked is that the success of a neural network at a particular application is often determined by a series of choices made at the start of the research, including what…
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Removing PGP from PyPI
PyPI has removed support for uploading PGP signatures with new releases.
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Packed structs in Zig make bit/flag sets trivial
As we've been building Mach engine, we've been using a neat little pattern in Zig that enables writing flag sets more nicely in Zig than in other languages. Here's a brief explainer.
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Elixir and Phoenix can do it all
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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DuckDB 0.8
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.8.0). This release is named “Fulvigula” after the Mottled Duck (Anas Fulvigula) native to the Gulf of Mexico. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many…
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Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
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.NET 7 is Available Today
.NET 7 is a major release that provides better performance and new features for C#, .NET MAUI, Web APIs, cloud native, and more. Free Download.
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Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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Ember.js Octane Edition
Ember 3.15 is Octane! Curious what Octane means for web development? This blog post will get you oriented. For a write up of the technical details (upgrade strategies, deprecations, new Ember Data...
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Chess in SQL
What if I told you SQL could play chess? No JavaScript, no frameworks - just pure SQL rendering a full chess board in your browser.
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Little Lisp interpreter
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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PostgreSQL Schema Design
The Postgres database is rich with features well beyond that of any other
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