Perf is probably the most widely used general purpose performance debugging tool on Linux. There are multiple contenders for the #2 spot, and, like perf, they're sampling profilers. Sampling profilers are great. They tend to be easy-to-use and low-overhead compared to most alternatives. However, there are large…
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Introduction Deflate compression has been around for over 20 years. It's the format used inside most ZIP files. It's used by HTTP to redu...
Streaming Messages from Kafka into Redshift in near Real-Time Shahid C., Software Engineer Oct 17, 2016 This post is part of a series covering Yelp's real-time streaming data infrastructure. Our...
Please consider reviewing this guide on Amazon, if you’ll find it helpful. Few months ago, I had to debug a memory leak in Node.js. I found a good number of articles dedicated to the subject…
We are happy to announce a major JitViewer (JV) update. JV allows you to inspect RPython's internal compiler representation (the language i...
Introduction The Problem with Colemak Back to the Drawing Board Introducing the Workman Layout Pros and Cons Test Results Key Usage Visualization Tests Using Popular Books Downloads Recommended Key…
I don’t use CSS preprocessors they way many people do. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
Update 2018-07. The branching model described here is called trunk based development. I and other people who I collaborated with did not know about the articles that used this name. Nowadays there are excellent web resources about the subject, like trunkbaseddevelopment.com. They have a lot of...
It’s over. The voting went smoothly. As of the time of writing, there are no serious fraud allegations, nor credible evidence that anyone tampered with voting rolls or voting machines. And most important, the results are not in doubt. While we may breathe a collective sigh of relief about that, we can’t ignore the…
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I agree with you. How is it that in order to build an application on the web I need to know at least seven technologies? Client side: - Javascrit - Coffescript to make JS seem sane - Angular or Jquery to make JS seem productive - CSS - SASS to make CSS seem sane - HTML5 - localstorage (to save somethnig) Server side …
Do concurrency bugs matter? From the literature, we know that most reported bugs in distributed systems have really simple causes and can be caught by trivial tests, even when we only look at bugs that cause really bad failures, like loss of a cluster or data corruption. The filesystem literature echos this result …
TL;DR: Zen Magnets won the 2014 hearing. Judge concludes proper use of magnets creates no danger. Some recalls . Still no Zen Magnets to sell.
We have a lot of new additions to the team to announce. Tim Brady is joining YC as a Partner. Previously, he was a Partner at ImagineK12. Tim was Yahoo’s first employee and spent 8 years as the company’s Chief Product Officer. Tim was also the CEO of QuestBridge, an educational startup that helps bright low-income…
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Viking Horde Android malware conducts ad fraud, but can also be used for other attack purposes such as DDoS attacks, spam messages, and more.
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Java language server is an implementation of the language server protocol for Java. If you recall, language server protocol provides a common way for editors and IDEs to integrate with language
