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By Laura Nolan, with contributions from Glen D. Sanford, Jamie Scheinblum, and Chris Sullivan. Assessing conditions Slack experienced a major incident on February 22 this year, during which time many users were unable to connect to Slack, including the author — which certainly made my role as Incident Commander more…
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
Running a development team for each mobile platform sucks up resources from other work. Flutter is the most popular way for one development team to build on all platforms.
The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.
In this blog, we share how we improved the daily edit-build-run developer experience using DevPods, our remote development environment. We will start with some of the initial challenges, the pain points we addressed with Devpod, our architecture, and some of our recent successes in terms of adoption and cost…
A 20 minute Kafka outage brought down our entire Erlang cluster for hours. How could this happen? Follow this fascinating investigation!
Deno 1.28 ships with stabilized npm modules, auto-discovered lock file, a new subprocess API, and more
GraalVM is an advanced JDK with ahead-of-time Native Image compilation.
After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
I put together a list and explained why they are important.
Shopify shares some of the lessons we learned and solutions we built in order to run Airflow at scale.
Tweag’s Nix team plans for the coming years
React hooks changed radically how we build frontend applications allowing engineers to separate stateful logic from rendering. However, under a seemingly simple API there are some aspects of React hooks that are the source of bugs and performance issues. In this article, we will do a deep dive into the javascript…
When OpenAI announced GPT-3 & its public beta I was fascinated but didn’t have an API key. I played with everything free that was built with GPT-3. Naturally, when I heard about GitHub Copilot I signed up for the waitlist and a few months later, I got access!
Explanation and making of a website in a single JavaScript file
TL;DR: This is a proposal to create a language that sits somewhere between Typescript and Rust, and which you can incrementally adopt if you already use Typescript.
After using Vue 2 as our front-end framework for almost two years, it was announced that this support would no longer be maintained, so we decided to migrate to a new framework. But which one to choose: Vue 3 or Svelte? Please note that our goals after the migration were
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Vite 3 Release Announcement
In this essay, Carson Gross explores alternatives to Single Page Applications (SPAs), advocating for an 'HTML-Centric' development approach. He highlights the drawbacks of SPA complexity and the benefits of embracing HTML as the core medium for web development, offering a simpler, more efficient way to build…
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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A huge milestone towards Elixir and Machine Learning has been reached with the release of Nx v0.1
