Sorting Japanese is not only difficult—it’s an unsolved problem. This seems hard to believe if you are not familiar with the complexities of processing Japanese digitally. But what is trivially easy in English is impossible in Japanese, even with the amount of computer power we have available today.
Swift 5 switches the preferred encoding of strings from UTF-16 to UTF-8 while preserving efficient Objective-C-interoperability. Because the String type abstracts away these low-level concerns, no source-code changes from developers should be necessary*, but it’s worth highlighting some of the benefits this move gives…
I am mostly a backend developer, but every now and then I need to do some frontend work. Even if just for personal use.
Google Cloud will be at the cornerstone of Mayo Clinic’s digital transformation as it looks to the cloud to enhance patient and clinician experiences, improve diagnostics and patient outcomes, and expand its unparalleled clinical research.
A performance comparison between three different methods of deploying an API on AWS
Usenet—Netnews—was conceived almost exactly 40 years ago this month. To understand where it came from and why certain decisions were made the way they were, it’s important to understand the technological constraints of the time.
There are a lot of choices when it comes to container base images, so why should you select Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)? Well, first off, all of the code in Red Hat Universal Base Image is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Task Manager can be lacking as a memory tracker. Let's cover alternatives to replace it. First, let’s discuss how memory allocations work in Windows.
We all have stories, as engineers, of fixing some crazy thing at the last minute right before the demo goes up. We have all encountered situations where we needed to fix something that was our fault and we needed to fix it now.
The database is usually the most critical part of a software architecture and managing databases, especially relational ones, has never been easy. For this reason, we created Amazon Aurora Serverless, an auto-scaling version of Amazon Aurora that automatically starts up, shuts down and scales up or down based on your…
OpenCensus Web is a tool to trace and monitor the user-perceived performance of your web pages. It can help determine whether or not your web pages are experiencing performance issues that you might otherwise not know how to diagnose.
A comprehensive guide on how to write good documentation for your code and libraries
We are proud to introduce Maesh, Containous’ new service mesh designed from the ground up to be straightforward, easy to install and easy to use...
First part of this series | Previous | Next |Index In the latter part of the last episode, I outlined two problems I want to solve next. The first is to weigh in the direction of my target when fin…
As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence of how we do these Progress Reports - we sometimes will go…
Our founder Francesco Cesarini remembers the early days working with Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang.
Today we’re introducing .dev, the latest top-level domain (TLD) from Google Registry, offering secure domains for developers and technology.
Some personal reflections about the evolution and death or programming languages. By the forces a circumstances, I had to reverse engineer and decommission a few Perl scripts in an old company earl…
Death rates are measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity.
A new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University examined students’ genetic risk of alcohol use, roommates’ drinking habits and the perception of peer drinking.
Tìm khoản vay tiền nhanh sử dụng CCCD, hồ sơ được hỗ trợ xét duyệt nhanh và chuyển khoản ngay khi đủ điều kiện. Người có nợ xấu vẫn có thể được xem xét tùy hồ sơ và chính sách của từng đối tác tài chính. Vay tiền ngay!
Coding and writing by Anna Powell-Smith. Around 15% of the freehold land in England & Wales is unregistered. What this means is that if you go to the Land Registry and ask them ‘Who owns …
We are working really hard to allow you to deploy Workers without having a Cloudflare domain. You will soon be able to deploy your Cloudflare Workers to a subdomain-of-your-choice.workers.dev, which you can go claim now on workers.dev!
Things you should know about color when adopting dark mode.
Julia is a high-level programming language for mathematical computing that is as easy to use as Python, but as fast as C. The language has been created with performance in mind…
Code that shows how floating point arithmetic can go wrong, and how C and C++ can return different results for similar code.
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
