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We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
Streaming pipelines on AWS can be expensive. Here’s how we cut AWS costs 67% without reserved instances or savings plans
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Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots
Improving connection scalability in Postgres 14. From the neat to the gritty: snapshot scalability edition.
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Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text
New research has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments housed at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library, which were previously thought to be blank, do in fact contain text. The discovery means that The University of Manchester is the only institution in the UK to possess authenticated…
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Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes
Describing technical and design issues associated with having creatures that occupy multiple cells in the grid-based world of a roguelike, with solutions.
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Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts
The business of state civil courts has changed over the past three decades. In 1990, a typical civil court docket featured cases with two opposing sides, each with an attorney, most frequently regarding commercial matters and disputes over contracts, injuries, and other harms.
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Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2020141 points172 commentsTech Industry & Business details
Although Wall Street would be ferociously opposed to policies that limit the unfettered flow of capital around the world, the right polices could sharply reduce the economic disruption wreaked on workers, producers, farmers, and the middle class.
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Programming at the REPL (2018)
Clojure REPLs are used for a broad spectrum of purposes, from learning the language to data exploration to live music performance. This chapter will provide some guiding principles for applying Clojure REPLs to the more common use case of pragmatic software development.
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Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB
I’m a database nerd. Or, to be more precise, a DBMS nerd. But back in university, I avoided the Databases course at all costs. A little ironic when you consider I quit my job building IBM Db2 to work on CockroachDB.
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The new pricing model for Travis CI
At Travis CI, we design CI/CD products to make code testing and deployment easy. We are a huge supporter of open-source teams, with many projects such as…
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TeXmacs 1.99.14 released. Take a look at this research paper exported to HTML
Assuming a widely-believed hypothesis concerning the least prime in an arithmetic progression, we show that two -bit integers can be multiplied in time on a Turing machine with a finite number of tapes; we also show that polynomials of degree less than over a finite field with elements can be multiplied in time …
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Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler
One of the challenges of application engineering within an established company like Dropbox is to break out of the cycle of incremental improvements and look at a problem fresh. Our colleagues who do user research help by regularly reminding us of the customer’s perspective, but so can our friends and family when they…
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Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right
Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Its orbit is shaped like a rosette and not like an ellipse as predicted by…
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Picture Hanging Knot (2017)
How to tie a knot for hanging a picture frame using cord and D-Rings.
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IPv6 WireGuard Peering
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Threema Goes Open Source
Threema Goes Open Source, Welcomes New Partner
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State of SaaS Product Onboarding
Read our State of SaaS Onboarding annual industry report to see how your product's onboarding compares to SaaS industry benchmarks & what best practices you could implement.
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Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
The Progress Report has come and with it some major changes and decisions. However, before we get into new things, we need to go over an ongoing change as we've seen some users struggling. In the last progress report, we updated our project solutions to Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2019. We thought there would be no…
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Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
Serverless containers and functions are widely used for deploying and managing software in the cloud. Their popularity is due to reduced cost of operations, improved utilization of hardware, and faster scaling than traditional deployment methods. The economics and scale of serverless applications…
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