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In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
Essentially a flick is just a really big number, specifically the number 705,600,000 and tries to solve a problem that nobody in digital media actually has.
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CockroachDB 19.2
CockroachDB 19.2 improves latency, reliability, and usability. We’re bringing the speed of distributed transactions closer to the theoretical minimum.
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Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
Update September 30, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove broken links. Today, we’re extremely happy to launch Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while allowing full control and visibility. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine…
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Ruby Lazy Enumerators
Ruby provides support for lazy loading enumerators, allowing efficient processing of large or infinite sequences.
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Useful Postgres Extension: Pg_stat_statements
Inspired by a talk in the PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM, a post on the usefulness of the pg_stat_statements extension to Postgres and why every Postgres developer should have it in their toolbox. With sections on getting started, and how to extract insights with pg_stat_statements.
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Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser
WebAssembly has begun to establish itself outside of the browser via dedicated runtimes like Mozilla’s Wasmtime and Fastly’s Lucet. While the promise of a new, universal format for programs is ...
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TypeScript 3.7: The Biggest Features and How to Use Them
The TypeScript 3.7 release is coming soon, and it's going to be a big one. The target release date is November 5th, and there's some seriously exciting...
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PostgreSQL Count(*) Performance Improvements
count(*) is often quite slow in PostgreSQL. This article explores how to count rows faster using approximations and other tricks.
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Crystal 0.31
Crystal 0.31.0 has been released!
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The Use of assert() in SQLite
The assert(X) macro is part of standard C , in the <assert.h> header file. SQLite adds three other assert()-like macros named NEVER(X), ALWAYS(X), and testcase(X).
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Avoiding “OR” for Better Query Performance
OR in the WHERE condition of a PostgreSQL database query is usually a cause of bad query performance. How to rewrite queries without OR.
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Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs
Heroku has many public API endpoints. See how Heroku uses JSON Schema to test and document our Platform API–and how it helped us uncover an unexpected bug.
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Parallelism in Crystal
Crystal has made a huge step forward to have parallelism as a first class citizen. In short, you can set up the number of worker threads on runtime and each new fiber will be scheduled to run on one of them. Channel and select will work seamlessly. You are allowed to share memory between workers, but you will probably…
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The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
In celebration of Unix’s 50th anniversary, the CHM Software History Center is delighted to make publicly accessible for the first time some of the earliest source code produced in the Unix story.
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Cloud Code – A new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code
Cloud Code, a new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code, makes it easy to rapidly build, debug, and deploy to Kubernetes, using the tools you already have.
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Our Stripe Billing implementation and the one webhook to rule them all
This is how we configured Stripe Billing for our SaaS and hooked it to our backend. We only use one webhook to keep all things running smoothly.
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Postgres tips for the average and power user
A collection of power user tips for those working with Postgres
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Fearless Security: Memory Safety
Memory safety violations can cause programs to crash unexpectedly and can be exploited to alter intended behavior--languages can manage this multiple ways
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An Introduction to C and GUI Programming
An Introductrion to C & GUI Programming, the new book from Simon Long and the Raspberry Pi Press is out now. Get your copy today.
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ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment
The :npm-deps compiler option now defaults to false . Previously, :npm-deps defaulted to true .
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The art of writing eBPF programs
A blog about the process of writing Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) programs and what’s going on under the hood at the kernel-level.
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Security flaws caused by compiler optimizations
Learn how to optimize compilers for enterprise-wide automation, avoiding pitfalls with examples and solutions.
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Electron v5.0 Timeline
For the first time ever, Electron is excited to publicize our release schedule starting with v5.0.0. This is our first step in having a public, long-term timeline.