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How you can use micro-commits to effectively apply the Strangler Fig pattern.

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I'd like to think that my understanding of "async Rust" has increased over the past year or so. I'm 100% onboard with the basic principle: I would like to handle tho...

Techniques and reasons to optimize your code for people, not metrics.

Programmers often need to write data structures to disk or to networks. The data structure then needs to be interpreted as a sequence of bytes. Regarding integer values, most computer systems adopt “little endian” encoding whereas an 8-byte integer is written out using the least significant bytes first. In the Go programming language, you can … Continue reading Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays

Learn what parser combinators are, what they are made of, and how to make your own CSV parser using NimbleParsec, a parser combinator library written in Elixir.

Paw extension for Elixir code generation with the HTTPoison library.

Hey 👋🏼 Elixir community, I’ve been learning Elixir, and working on some side projects. My editor of choice is VSCode, and although I started somewhat seriously working with Elixir like a month ago, only today I finally was able to configure VSCode, so it will help me, rather than me fighting it. There are multiple extensions on VScode Marketplace, and it can be confusing to decide which ones to install. Initally, I went ahead, and installed almost all of them, which of course led to prob...

Thinking in processes is already difficult; writing automated tests for those processes shouldn't make it worse. Elixir provides the necessary tooling to ensure your processes are rock solid. This article explains how to use them.

TIL is an open-source project by Hashrocket that exists to catalogue the sharing & accumulation of knowledge as it happens day-to-day.

A concise implementation of bloom filters in C

Some of the tricks we used to speed up SELECT-s in PostgreSQL: LEFT JOIN with redundant conditions, VALUES, extended statistics, primary…

Part three of a three part series exploring code review best practices. This post focuses on clarity and simplicity, with a focus on what exactly these concepts imply, general tools to increase simplicity and clarity in a codebase, and a review of a real piece of code for those same qualities.

Intro This is a part of the series of blog posts related to Artificial Intelligence Implementation. If you are interested in the background of  the story or how it goes: #1) How to scrape Google Local Results with Artificial Intelligence? #2) Real World Example of Machine Learning on Rails #3)

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Its technical meaning is just defining something through itself. But how amazingly universal it is, how much air it gives us to breathe!

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Learn how to can start your Android Development career, learning what is and isn’t important to learn and what to do to land your first…

Successful application development means balancing speed and security. You cannot sacrifice one for the other.