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Each and every week, Uber’s 4,500 stateless microservices are deployed more than 100,000 times by 4,000 engineers and many autonomous systems. These services are developed, deployed, and operated by hundreds of individual teams working independently across the globe. The services vary in size, shape, and…
Ruby 3.2 YJIT has optimized the production workloads of Shopify and other companies. We encourage you to enable YJIT in production. Once Ruby 3.3 is released, it should make your application even faster.
Discover the latest in finance automation that increases the lifespan of businesses from the Ramp team
Learning Elixir when you already know Ruby? Here are the three most important things you need to understand
Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla! Today, August 26, marks the 25th anniversary of Bugzilla! The first two paragraphs lifted from our Bugzilla h...
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.9.0). This release is named Undulata after the Yellow-billed duck native to Africa. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many changes to discuss them each in…
This has been a bit of a tumultuous summer for the project, but now things are returning to normalcy. For those who somehow missed it, the Dolphin on Steam project has ceased after contact between Valve and Nintendo. Though we disagree with their stance and decision, we respect Valve's right to impose whatever…
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary orbits, and that those signals are then beamed down to the entire North American subcontinent? Satellite radios today serve hundreds of channels across 9,540,000 square miles. Unless you’re working at a…
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a technique for fine-tuning models that has some advantages over previous methods:
The Clojure team is proud to introduce Morse, a graphical, interactive tool for browsing and inspecting Clojure data, evolved from REBL . Morse is open source, licensed under the Apache license.
Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
This article details how htmx with Rust and Shuttle can speed up your workflow and let you focus on the code with the assistance of Axum and Askama.
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
Nothing is ever finished or perfect, and HTTP is no exception. HTTP QUERY is a new HTTP method, for safe requests that include a request body. It's still...
Glamorous Toolkit (GT) is the Moldable Development Environment. Version 1.0 embodies more than 6 years of development and is the result of some 14 years of research. Our goal is to make systems explainable by means of custom tools created for each problem. Glamorous Toolkit makes this possible by making the creation…
Join me as I transition from soft to hardware with the SidecarTridge Multi-device. Insights and challenges of creating a ROM cartridge emulator for Atari ST
Today is the day! After more than a year of work, our team is excited to finally put a fancy "stable" sticker on the first release from the 4.x release line! To celebrate, let's make together a tour of the major changes; should you look for a more itemized list, take a look at the changelog.
At Sourcegraph, we're inspired by developers that make a difference. Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of Zoekt, an open source search engine for code based on Google's internal Code Search tool, is one of those inspiring developers.
After nearly a full year of non-stop development since the initial announcement of The Big Refactor , 4153 commits made, 700 issues closed , and a month of beta testing, Ronin 2.0.0 has finally been released!
YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting…
Bard can now help with programming and software development tasks, across more than 20 programming languages.
Basic introduction to Kubernetes Operators and Controllers, with a tutorial on creating an Operator in Rust
A Phoenix LiveView is a Process, let's discuss what that means!
We talk about querying system wide I/O statistics in Postgres, show several use cases for pg_stat_io, and talk about the future of I/O observability in Postgres.
