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OpenPGPjs v3.0
We're happy to announce a major new version of OpenPGPjs, the world's most widely used JavaScript PGP encryption library. Version 3.0 brings many enhancements to the hundreds of applications and millions of users who rely on OpenPGPjs.
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Lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions
ramblings by Adam Perry
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Advantages of monolithic version control
Someone : Did you hear that Facebook/Google uses a giant monorepo? WTF! Me : Yeah! It's really convenient, don't you think? Someone : That's THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I've ever heard. Don't FB and Google know what a terrible idea it is to put all your code in a single repo? Me : I think engineers at FB and Google are…
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Say yes to the progressive web
Meet the experts. Explore the digital magazine where innovators share tech strategies, executive insights, and advancements in AI and IT transformation.
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The Design of Software is a Thing Apart
Why code can't replace design docs: three examples (testing, coupling, intent) of design information that cannot be recovered from code alone.
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Clojure is Capable
So, given all of that, lets dive into the meat of the article. What are we going to accomplish in Clojure today?
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How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer
CockroachDB 2.1 includes a brand-new, built-from-scratch, cost-based SQL optimizer. This post explains what a cost-based SQL optimizer is, and tells the story of how we decided we really, really needed one.
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WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
An alternative way to do web based apps on macOS and iOS without Electron
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Native Clojure with GraalVM
GraalVM challenges the status quo on the JVM. This newly-released just-in-time compiler brings substantial speed improvements and support for polyglot applications. It also allows us to translate our JVM bytecode into small self-contained native binaries. In this session we’ll explore Graal’s impact on Clojure. We’ll…
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Concurrency Glossary
🦑 Informal definitions of terms used in concurrency modeling
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The Internals of Postgres – Concurrency Control
Concurrency Control is a mechanism that maintains atomicity and isolation, which are two properties of the ACID, when multiple transactions run concurrently in a database.
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The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it
The "Waterfall" methodology was a historic accident and they knew it.
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C++20 Ranges
As you may have heard by now, Ranges got merged and will be part of C++20. This is huge news and represents probably the biggest shift the Standard Library has seen since it was first standardized …
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Single Page Application Is Not a Silver Bullet
The blog of Seva Zaikov
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Our Vision for Rust and WebAssembly
Stay up to date with events, learning resources, and recent developments in Rust and WebAssembly community.
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Robust Client-Side JavaScript
Why do we need to talk about robust JavaScript and how do we achieve it?
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Literate raytracer: a simple implementation of raytracing in Javascript
Raytracing is a relatively simple way to render images of 3D objects. The core is an elegant idea, that one can simulate the real-world behavior of photons of light bouncing off of surfaces and colors accumulating from their paths. It’s not inherently fast, but the simplicity of the core lets it model interesting…
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From Rails to Clojure, Then to Java, Then Back to Rails
In the past 6 years I’ve worked on web applications in Rails, Clojure, Java and back to Rails. This is an overview of these past years, the benefits of working with such different tech stacks, and also it’s drawbacks.
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A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas
Discussions: Hacker News (195 points, 51 comments), Reddit r/Python (140 points, 18 comments) If you’re planning to learn data analysis, machine learning, or data science tools in python, you’re most likely going to be using the wonderful pandas library. Pandas is an open source library for data manipulation and…
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Modeling Message Queues in TLA+
I recently did a corporate TLA+ workshop and some people asked what TLA+ specs look like in practice. If you looked at the most common public examples, you’d probably come away thinking that people only used it for critical consensus algorithms. This is a problem for two reasons: first, it makes it harder to learn…
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A Gentle Introduction to Rust
Introduction to the Rust language, standard library and ecosystem
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Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs
I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic that gets both the most raised eyebrows, as well the most "aha!" moments is