Jon Doyle: Biographical Sketch
William E. Byrd
Pluralistic: 15 Oct 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Mystical Programming
CodeSee Helps Developers 'Understand the Codebase' - The New Stack
CodeSee aims to help developers not only gain an initial understanding, but to continually understand large codebases as they evolve over time.
OpenAPI and GraphQL: The Chunnel Problem - The New Stack
In this post, we’ll explore the bridging of the gaps between frontend and backend systems, like the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel.
ID Token and Access Token: What Is the Difference?
Learn what ID and access tokens are and how to correctly use them in the OpenID Connect and OAuth context.
Auditd - Tool for Security Auditing on Linux Server
Security is one of the main factor that we need to consider. We must maintain it because we don't want someone steal our data. Security includes many things.
Validate Service-Level Objectives of REST APIs Using Iter8 - The New Stack
Iter8 makes it easy to optimize, validate and safely release new versions of apps. This experiment shows how Iter8 works.
Interoperable Serendipity
If you had asked my thoughts on interoperability some years ago, I wouldn't have had much to say. Nowadays, it has become one of my most revered ideals. And today, I want to take you along for a journey towards its summum: Interoperable Serendipity.
Researchers 'Drop the Zeroes' to Speed Deep Learning - The New Stack
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) are now proposing a method of accelerating distributed deep learning by dropping data blocks with zero values, which are frequently produced during distributed machine learning processes that use large datasets.
Speed matters
Target Embraces Cross-Organizational DevOps Culture - The New Stack
Pre-COVID-19, the merchandising culture at the Target retail chain had a very siloed decision-making process and operations, only focusing on what’s best for each “unique” division or category, not concerned with what was best for end-to-end operations or customers. Over the last four years, the company worked to change this state of operations, and the […]
RISC-V: The Next Revolution in the Open Hardware Movement - The New Stack
Why is there so much momentum around RISC-V? The true revolution lies in the open hardware movement, and RISC-V is its current spearhead.
The Story Behind SingleStore’s Skiplist Indexes
A skiplist is an ordered data structure providing expected O(Log(n)) lookup, insertion and deletion complexity. Learn more!
How I started with NixOS
I played with NixOS for the last couple of months. This is a story about how I picked it up, or how I should have done it.
Stop Using Microservices. Build Monoliths Instead.
Why most companies would be better off avoiding microservices
Idempotent Receiver
Identify requests from clients uniquely so they can ignore duplicate requests when client retries
Servo
Chaos Engineering for Cloud Native - The New Stack
How you can practice chaos engineering more effectively in cloud native, which I call 'cloud native chaos engineering' or CNCE.
How the Developer Experience Is Changing with Cloud Native - The New Stack
Collaboration among traditionally decoupled roles — the developer, ops and SREs — is essential. Cloud native and Kubernetes necessitate it.
Stupid Simple Service Mesh — What, When, Why
Recently microservices-based applications became very popular and with the rise of microservices, the concept of Service Mesh also became…
Lightning-fast rebases with git-move
You can use git move as a drop-in 10x faster replacement for git rebase (see the demo). The basic syntax is
A Design For An Efficient Coordinated Financial Computing Platform
Building tomorrows Web 3 infrastructure
Programming BS: Checked Exceptions
The Problem
I have always hated being forced to catch an exception, largely because:
Remember that code you wrote that brings the database backup, adds disk space or memory, grants the correct file privileges as root? Neither do I. If a real problem...
You Already Know Formal Methods - Galois, Inc.
That’s right, you. The software engineer who hasn’t taken a logic or formal methods course. You already know formal methods. Sure, you might not be able to build a fancy new proof tool this month, but skills you apply every day are the building blocks of formal methods. What gives? People do PhDs in formal […]
Building a multi-select component
A foundational overview of how to build a responsive, adaptive, and accessible, multiselect component for sort and filter user experiences.
From Ops To Advocacy
edunham joins Okta Developer Relations!
ongoing by Tim Bray · Worst Case
Google Opens Up Spanner Database With PostgreSQL Interface
Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that