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We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)
We build our own (simple) cron-replacement and we are extremely happy with it.
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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses
Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement.
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Nine years of Go
Happy 9th birthday, Go!
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Literate Programming: Empower Your Writing with Emacs Org-Mode
OfferZen flips the normal recruitment model around, so instead of applying for jobs, companies send you interview requests with upfront salary.
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V8 release v6.8
V8 v6.8 features reduced memory consumption and several performance improvements.
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Telegram Login for Websites
The Login Widget offers a frictionless way to authorize users on your website and ask for permission to contact them on Telegram.
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The Rust borrow checker from a different perspective
Today we’re looking at the rust borrow checker from a different perspective. As you may know, the borrow checker is designed to safely handle memory allocation and ownership, preventing accessess to invalid memory and ensuring data-race freedom. This is a form of resource management: the borrow checker is tracking…
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Accelerate large-scale applications with BOLT
Highly complex services, such as those here at Facebook, have large source code bases in order to deliver a wide range of features and functionality. Even after the machine code for one of these se…
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Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard
cpyext is PyPy's subsystem which provides a compatibility layer to compile and run CPython C extensions inside PyPy. Often people ask ...
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Crystal 0.27.0 released
Crystal 0.27.0 has been released!
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Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.6.0-preview1.
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My OTP 21 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Qt for Python available at PyPi
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Native Clojure with GraalVM
The newly-released GraalVM changes the status quo in the realm of JVM-based programming languages. In this instalment we’ll explore its impact on Clojure. We’ll start small, but by the end we’ll compile an entire Ring web application into a self-contained native binary.
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Go 1.10 is released
Go 1.10 adds automatic caching of build & test results, and more.
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The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types
Just as algebra is fundamental to the whole of mathematics, algebraic data types (ADTs) are fundamental to many common functional programming languages. They’re the primitives upon which all of our richer data structures are built, including everything from sets, maps, and queues, to bloom filters and neural networks .
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The Power of Web Components
Web Components comprises a set of standards that enable user-defined HTML elements. These elements can go in all the same places as traditional HTML. Despite the long standardization process, the ...
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Best practices for migrating an Oracle database to Amazon PostgreSQL
An Oracle to PostgreSQL migration in the AWS Cloud can be a complex multistage process with different technologies and skills involved, starting from the assessment stage to the cutover stage. This blog series covers the environment and configuration setups for your source Oracle database, the AWS Database Migration…
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OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Designs [video]
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
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Material UI v1 for React is out
React components that implement Google’s Material Design.
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I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month
Recent years showed the growth of technologies like wildfire. With the spread of COVID-19, most businesses started adopting cutting-edge technologies. Technology has been playing a very important role in both our personal and professional life. This has increased the demand for experienced and skilled IT professionals…
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Webpack 4 Beta released
One month till stable release!
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App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime
Google Cloud is announcing a new Go 1.11 runtime for App Engine, with fewer limits on app structure.
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Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python
Python allows for several different approaches to parallel processing. The main issue with parallelism is knowing its limitations. We either want to parallelise IO operations or …
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An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python
Amazon Apps & Services Developer Portal
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How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)
UPDATE: The Next Web wrote a story about my findings…