Software Engineering

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Multiperspective Diagramming – A guide for system engineers

Ilograph Blog2021104 points14 comments details

A multiperspective diagramming guide for system, software, cloud, network, and other engineers.

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The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)

Type Classes2021104 points12 commentscited by 4 details

The Haskell Phrasebook is a free quick-start Haskell guide comprised of a sequence of small annotated programs.

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Pijul – Datacenter on Fires

Pijul Blog2021103 points31 comments details

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Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser

Tetrate Blog2021102 points119 comments details

WebAssembly (Wasm) has many applications in the cloud-native world today – WASI, edge cloud computing, Proxy-Wasm, and cloud-native runtime for server

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How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow Blog2021102 points73 commentscited by 3 details

April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.

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James Gosling Interview

Evrone Blog2021101 points73 comments details

We had an opportunity to talk with James Gosling, a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language, and get his insight into the languages, features, and solutions that we use every day.

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Inline and Sideline Approaches for Low-Cost Memory Safety in C

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory2021101 points26 comments details

This technical report is based on a dissertation submitted November 2020 by the author for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the University of Cambridge, Selwyn College.

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Where should the debugger set a breakpoint?

Pernosco Blog2021101 points17 comments details

When you search for executions of a function in Pernosco (or set a breakpoint in a more traditional debugger), how does the debugger decide where to stop? You might think it just stops at the first instruction in a function, but that's not true in general. Debuggers actually stop immediately after the function's…

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Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities

pganalyze Blog2021101 points16 comments details

We take a behind the scenes look at the pganalyze Index Advisor and discuss a few recent improvements, such as utilizing selectivity information better.

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