The True Cost of Rewrites
Your code is complex and working with it is difficult. Years of development and bug fixes have you ready to declare bankruptcy on your technical debt and start again from scratch. It feels so freeing to leave all your past mistakes behind and start over in a new technology and do everything right this time. Before…
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Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
Distributed database performance––both latency and uptime––can be dramatically improved with CDN-like multi-region deployments.
Running Java in a Container
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1
An API gateway routes client requests intelligently and handles functions such as load balancing, security, and rate limiting.
Thunderbird 60.0 release
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
Study finds increased possibility of information leaking around Fed meetings
Booth study finds increased possibility of information leaking around Fed meetings
23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
23andMe Granted First FDA Authorization for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
The “Run Less Software” philosophy
We have developed a critical philosophy behind how we build software, and the tech stack we rely on. We call it Run Less Software.
AI Can Detect Illnesses in Human Breath
Researchers from Loughborough University, Western General Hospital, the University of Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Cancer Centre in the United Kingdom, recently developed a deep learning-based method…
Court has confirmed coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde in Germany were illegal
Update July 10th: Last week Monday, prosecution stated that they will keep our things for further analysis, even after explicitly confirming to journalists that they are aware that our only connection to Riseup is the collection of donations. This includes items belonging to our partners, and other third parties like…
The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals
WebAssembly is a performance optimised virtual machine that was shipped in all four major browsers earlier this year. It is a nascent technology and the current version is very much an MVP. This blog post takes a look at the WebAssembly roadmap and the features it might gain in the near future.
Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
B2 Cloud Storage has now partnered with Packet and ServerCentral to announce compute options. Here’s everything this means for you as a customer.
OpenAI Five Benchmark
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
Recently we’ve seen how WebAssembly is incredibly fast to compile, speeding up JS libraries, and generating even smaller binaries. We’ve even got a high-level plan for better interoperability between the ...
Snips Uses Rust to Build an Embedded Voice Assistant
The team at Paris-based Snips has created a voice assistant that can be embedded in a single device or used in a home network to control lights, thermostat
How JavaScript works: the rendering engine and tips to optimize its performance
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
Problems with infinite scroll
Infinite scroll may be disorienting, difficult to control, and stressful for some users, so you may want to consider these alternative options.
It’s Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done [audio]
Sam Chaudhary [https://twitter.com/samchaudhary_] is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo [https://www.classdojo.com/]. They’ve raised $30M and have 30 employees. Karen Lien [https://twitter.com/karenlien03] is an Edtech Principal here at YC…