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Elixir v1.7 released
Elixir v1.7 includes many quality of life improvements, focusing on documentation, Logger and ExUnit, as well as a new Elixir Core team member.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 466 posts.
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Rocket v0.4: Typed URIs, Database Support, Revamped Queries
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.
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Pick strong consistency whenever possible
Do you like complex application logic? We don’t either. One of the things we’ve learned here at Google is that application code is simpler and development schedules are shorter when developers can rely on underlying data stores to handle complex transaction processing and keeping data ordered. To quote the original…
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Keras vs PyTorch
Keras and PyTorch are both excellent choices for your first deep learning framework. Learn how they differ and which one will suit your needs better.
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Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.
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Bing.com now runs on .NET Core
Bing.com is a cloud service that runs on thousands of servers spanning many datacenters across the globe. Bing servers handle thousands of users’ queries every second from consumers around the world doing searches through their browsers, from our partners using the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs, and from the…
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Moving Fast and Securing Things
For development teams, process can often be antithetical to speed. Ease of deployment and security tend to have an inverse relationship, with some resentment for the security team occasionally mixed in. You may have seen the following tweet: https://twitter.com/petecheslock/status/595617204273618944?lang=en We believe…
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Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps
Today, as part of Mobile World Congress 2018, we are excited to announce the first beta release of Flutter . Flutter is Google's new mobile UI framework that helps developers craft high-quality native interfaces for both iOS and Android. Get started today at flutter.io to build beautiful native apps in record time.
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Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps
Java 11 features a new Garbage Collector, the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC), which is designed for very low pause times on huge multi-terabyte heaps. In this article we'll cover the motivation for a new GC, a technical overview and some of the really exciting possibilities ZGC opens up.
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Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues
A technical talk about the structure and details of the new, low-latency Go garbage collector.
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Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
One of my favorite Amazon Leadership Principles is Customer Obsession. When we launched AWS Lambda, we focused on giving developers a secure serverless experience so that they could avoid managing infrastructure. In order to attain the desired level of isolation we used dedicated EC2 instances for each customer. This…
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Announcing TypeScript 3.0
TypeScript 3.0 is here! Today marks a new milestone in the TypeScript journey, serving JavaScript users everywhere.If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript,
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Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
We are getting close to the official release date and have begun final preparations, including submitting 1Password 7 to the Mac App Store.
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Becoming a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal Performance
Explore Appfire's Blog for everything from ITSM and Workflow and Automation to System Administration, Software Development, and DevOps.
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Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10
Postgres stores a lot of statistics about your data in order to effectively retrieve results when you query your database. Here we deep dive into some of the statistics PostgreSQL stores and how you can leverage a new feature in Postgres 10 to improve performance when different columns are related.
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Clojure 1.10 release
Clojure 1.10 focuses on two major areas: improved error reporting and Java compatibility.
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Go's New Brand
Go’s new look and logo (don't worry, the mascot isn’t changing!).
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Lessons Learned from Writing Over 300k Lines of Infrastructure Code
Infrastructure code lessons from a HashiConf 2018 talk by Gruntwork, with the video, the slides, and a condensed written version of five key takeaways.
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We are rewriting CodeMirror
In-browser code editor
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Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more
Elixir v1.6 includes a code formatter, defguard, dynamic supervision and new module attributes that improves code quality and the developer experience.
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Python in Visual Studio Code
We are pleased to announce that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 38 issues including the stable release of our ptvsd 4 debugger, improvements to the language server preview, and other fixes.
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Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
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SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions
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 .
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Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine
News, updates, and best practices for developing apps on Google Cloud Platform.