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Treat Kubernetes clusters as cattle, not pets
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The Agent SDK
The Agent SDK is the framework we use to build our own managed agents like Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. Define agents in code and deploy them with one command.
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An update on Dart macros and data serialization
We have invested significant time and resources to prototype macros over the past couple years. Unfortunately, each time we solved a major…
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They lied to you. Building software is hard
Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.
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Fifty Shades of OOP
This post talks about the many different aspects under the umbrella term OOP
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Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap
DEAD CODE TECH LAW Contact us Our Location Icon label Alaska Icon label Nevada Icon label New Mexico Icon label Arizona Understanding the Role of a Medical Malpractice Lawyer: A Comprehensive Guide Medical malpractice cases are complex legal undertakings that require a specific set of skills and expertise. When faced…
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Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig
Zig is a general purpose programming language, meaning that if you have in front of you something that looks like a Von Neumann-ish, Turing-complete machine, you should be able to comfortably program it with Zig. Lately there has been a lot of interest in two such (virtual) machines: BPF and WebAssembly.
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Undefined Behavior in 2017
Since you talk about the sanitizers and tools like Checked-C, I’ll note there’s also SaferCPlusPlus[1], which is essentially a memory-safe (and data race safe) subset of C++. The idea is that there are a finite number of C++ elements that contribute to memory unsafety, and since the advent of C++11, it is now…
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The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
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British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
This year, British Column has moved to year-round Pacific Time. How does that affect date data?
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In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (2001)
Time for a pop quiz. 1. Code Reuse is: a) Goodb) Bad 2. Reinventing the Wheel is: a) Goodb) Bad 3. The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome is: a) Goodb) Bad Of course, everybody knows that you should always…
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.NET 7 introduces Native AOT
.NET 7 Preview 3 is now available with enhancements to observability, startup times, codegen, GC regions, native AOT compilation, and more.
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The Reactive Monolith – How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing
Photo by Alex Wong on UnsplashWe all heard that story before: The big monolith which brings so much business value and faithfully serves our customers is starting to slow us down. The product vision is evolving towards reactive features, which means reacting in real time to multiple domain events in the right context…
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Python malware starting to employ anti-debug techniques
First time anti-debug techniques are discovered in PyPI malware. Read how these techniques are implemented, including analysis and tips from JFrog Security Research.
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WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December. It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed memory languages to take advantage of the advanced…
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Let’s stop copying C (2016)
Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well for what it is, and what it is is a relatively simple layer of…
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Software Development Estimates: Where Do I Start?
For some reason many people discuss the problem of estimating software development timeframes without properly understanding the issue. There is a famous answer on Quora that exemplifies this. Lots of people like that story, even though it’s inaccurate and misguided. “Software development” is such a huge endeavor that…
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FTX – The fraud was in the code
The jury got a taste of code review as they examined a falsified "insurance fund" and the infamous FTX → Alameda Research "backdoor".
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Why to normalize Unicode strings
Never heard of Unicode normalization? You’re not alone. But it will save you a lot of trouble.
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You Too Could Have Made Curl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCJmAyUr1j4 This is the video recording of my talk with this title, done at February 4, 2024 10:00 in the K1.105 room at FOSDEM 2024. The room can hold some 800 people but there were a few hundred seats still unoccupied. Several people I met up with later have insisted that 10 am on a ……
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Maven is broken by design
The other day, someone asked about the status of the GWT Mavenization, saying he loves Maven and would like to help. I replied that “I used to really like it” but wasn't “so sure nowadays.” It obviously was followed by “I know it could cause issues if not used in the proper way […] Do you mind telling me why you don't…
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Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
How we split Feldera into a thousand crates to use every core rustc can get, cutting compile times from 30 minutes to 2.
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Error Handling in Go (2016)
Two commonly perceived problems of the programming language Go are that handling errors is verbose and repetitive parametric polymorphism is not available This post is about the intersection of those problems and Rob Pike’s recommendation on the former.