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We’ve open-sourced MemLab, a JavaScript memory testing framework that automates memory leak detection. Finding and addressing the root cause of memory leaks is important for delivering a quality us…
Behind the scenes of building CloudQuery — architectural decisions, engineering challenges, and lessons learned creating the open-source cloud asset inventory.
Announcing the GHC WebAssembly backend – present and future
We are excited to announce fourteen new Excel functions that will allow you to easily manipulate text and arrays.
A framework for building Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers which connects to Stripe, Firebase, Clickhouse, and more.
Why constant-work patterns make systems more reliable, doing the same predictable work regardless of load to avoid surprising failure modes.
The upgrade to Ruby 2.7 for GitLab involved thousands of deprecation warnings across hundreds of files. Here's how we fixed most of them.
Learn about what offline-first apps are and how they help users as well as businesses for a better overall user experience.
Techniques for defining a declarative GUI in C++
Comparing performances I decided to compare the performances of the OpenSource Linux Userspace Emulator that allows you to run x86/x86_64 apps on ARM linux. There are QEMU-user, FEX-emu and Box86/Box64. How to bench Linux userspace emulator Test will consist of the bench I already used a couple of time, and that can…
We announced in October that passkey support was available in Chrome Canary. Today, we are pleased to announce that passkey support is now ...
Earlier this month, we migrated from offset pagination to cursor-based pagination for our API. In this journal, we walk through the basics of these methods of pagination and why we’re making this switch.
In this article, we introduce you to typeclasses in Haskell: what they are, how they can be used, and how to define your own instances of typeclasses.
An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Here's a look at the latest Mesa utilities, helpers & best practices for writing Vulkan drivers.
There is a better way to explore and analyze time-series data with PostgreSQL: hyperfunctions. Learn how to ease your workload with faster and simpler data.
Go generics are a new way to improve performance in golang. Let’s see what effect generics had on Google’s B-tree implementation.
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 .
Understanding Google's Zanzibar paper the way the Authzed team does.
Dynamically linked shared libraries are an important aspect of GNU/Linux. They allow executables to dynamically access external functionality at run time and thereby reduce their overall memory footprint (by bringing functionality in when it's needed). This article investigates the process of creating and using…
People are often baffled why enterprise software is slow, uses lots of memory, and is generally a pain to work with. Before starting mailbox.my, I did work at a large enterprise software company, so I hope to offer some insights with this post. Most of this actually applies to software in general.
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This post explores the experimental WebGPU API through examples and helps you get started with performing data-parallel computations using the GPU.
How to inspect the network traffic of an app with Fiddler Everywhere and scrape the data from its servers.
You have heard your grandmother tell you many times: parallel programming is hard. In 2022, does it still have to be? Back in grandma’s heyday, they knew a cool and breezy way to do paralleli…
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
Gaining trust in data with extensive data quality, accuracy, and anomaly checks.
