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If you've ever wondered - What is a tuple? What is a Postgres page? What's the difference between a record and a row? What is a relation? What's an array? What is TOAST? This post is for you! These are terms you hear all the time in the Postgres world. This post breaks down what these terms mean and how they are used.
The RP2040 is a microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the UK. It's a dual-core ARM Cortex M0+ running at 200 MHz which provides up to 16 MB of off-chip flash and 264 KB on-chip RAM. It has 30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analogue inputs, two UARTs, two SPI controllers, two I2C controllers, and 16…
We are delivering a new release with several bugfixes and improvements. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning several bugfixes and smaller enhancements. For more details, visit the changelog. Breaking changes are marked with ⚠️.
Firefly is an alternative compiler to BEAM, introducing new levels of efficiency and speed for compiling Elixir applications.
Tailscale on iOS runs as a special kind of app, a Network Extension. This lets us run in the background, so we can secure traffic from all of your applications, without them having to change anything. But with this power comes a memory straightjacket. Normal iOS apps can use 5GB or so of memory before iOS kills them…
WebKit has had a big year, with over 162 new features and improvements shipping in WebKit browsers — including Safari 15.2, Safari 15.4, and Safari 15.5.
A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories.
We are excited to announce a new embedding model which is significantly more capable, cost effective, and simpler to use.
We introduce Flamingo, a single visual language model (VLM) that sets a new state of the art in few-shot learning on a wide range of open-ended multimodal tasks.
Tap into the Git rebase features to improve your workflow.
Why does the performance of this prime sieve, using a Java BitSet, flicker between either decent performance and half of that?
Deno 1.26 adds Cache Web API; improves permission system, experimental npm support, Node.js compatibility; ships with TypeScript 4.8, and more.
Let's take a look at the pros and cons of Delayed Job and Sidekiq, two major job processing systems for Rails apps.
In this post we take a deeper look into one of the most popular design patterns in Rust web frameworks, the magical handler function.
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.4 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Command-line Racket provides a new expression editor by default for its read-eval-print loop (REPL). The new REPL is based on the Chez Scheme expr...
DuckDB has fully parallelized range joins that can efficiently join millions of range predicates.
Learn about the technical architecture of the terminal that makes it very hard to implement rich – or even “normal” – editing features like you’d find in an IDE.
I was looking into some of octosql 's benchmarks the other day and noticed a large chunk of time in DataStation / dsq is spent in encoding JSON objects. JSON is an intermediate format in DataStation and it's pretty inefficient. But the reason it's used is because almost every scripting language supported by…
Post-mortem report for the outage on July 13th and 14th 2022
The DeWitt clause lets database vendors forbid publishing benchmarks. What the clause is, which vendors still use it, and what you can legally publish.
At Arduino we like to experiment with new technologies to figure out if we can use them to improve the tools we make for our users. We’ve recently been
Preparing for the next major release, where Dart only supports sound null safety
Sublime Text 4, build 4142 is out now with new features, performance improvements and bug fixes.
Dealing with real-world data is hard. You often end up stuck between the document model of JSON and the relational model of SQL databases. There's a better way. It's called super-structured data.
