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This post is the first post in linux kernel series. Writing code to run in the kernel is different from user application. While developing in the kernel, you don’t write code from scratch, you need to implement one or more interfaces and register your implementation within the a kernel subsystem.
OOP has been wildly successful. But was the success just a coincidence? And can it still offer something unique in 2020 that other programming paradigms cannot?
How do we effectively find out why our application is slow? Even if we have a fix for the slow code, how can we prove that our new code is faster?
Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python.
Most computer applications can be configured to behave a cer
February 9, 2021: Post updated with the current regional availability of container image support for AWS Lambda. With AWS Lambda, you upload your code and run it without thinking about servers. Many customers enjoy the way this works, but if you’ve invested in container tooling for your development workflows, it’s not…
On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages with Shriram Krishnamurthi | September 12, 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri
Explore the latest updates from Caylent, including industry trends, expert insights, company news, and more.
How architecture decision records can help your team.
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A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
In this article series, we look at Elasticsearch from a new perspective. We'll start at the 'bottom' (or close enough!) of the many abstraction levels, and gradually move upwards towards the user-visi...
We think that Tech Debt is just lousy code written by reckless people. Here's a bigger picture view of what that really means in a Sustainable Software era.
In this post, we'll discuss some specifics of how we use Rust to power our mobile frameworks for iOS and Android.
We’re pleased to announce the availability of RethinkDB 2.4.1. This update includes bug fixes, build improvements and the reintroduced update checker. For a complete list of changes in this update, you can refer to the release notes . Don’t forget that we replaced our download server, please read our latest blog post .
The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the…
What are PostgreSQL templates and what are they used for?
I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post.
Author: Erich Keane, Compiler Frontend Engineer, Intel Corporation Earlier this month I finally committed a patch to implement the extended-integer type class, _ExtInt after nearly two and a half years of design and implementation.
Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that come and go without leaving a permanent mark. Microkernels; EPIC architectures like IA-64; object request brokers; and 1990s’-style neural nets are gone, and will not return. Sorry for the deep throwbacks; only time proves which…
