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There are a thousand programming languages out there (Literally, it seems, according to people who actually count such things.) A classification of so many species is bound to be complex and subjec…

Our world is driven by data and information, and storing it has always been a technical challenge. Learn about the evolution of data storage, the pros and cons of using the cloud, what cloud computin

If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. More than any of the many

The year was 2013. I was less than one year into my first job, and Google had just released Google Glass.

Fast and Concurrent Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

Twitter's most serious new annoyance is its new API pricing structure. It's both irritating developers and driving some of them out of business.

In the cloud native world, open source solutions are the incumbent, and the commercial solutions now carry the obligation to be compatible.

A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job announcement post per se, as I won’t share any details about the job itself until I’ve officially started.

One of the main beauties of Wasm is that its functionality enables it to accommodate a number of different languages in addition to JavaScript, including Python, Rust, of course, as well as Go, .NET, C++, Java and PHP.

Learn how Fission is making it possible to query decentralized data with RhizomeDB.

We're in 2023 and it's still surprisingly hard to publish a simple Markdown .md text file as part of a blog on the internet. I did a bit of research what tools …

I've been writing custom software for a long time and one of the things that annoys me most is when a client adopts the position that there is a silver bullet which will reduce or remove the inherent complexity of this task. This happens more often than you'd think and guess what? They are almost always wrong.

Why Maintaining a private CA Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

AutoGPT and BabyAGI run GPT AI agents to complete complex tasks iteratively.

The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you. They’re the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines, both of which date to 1996 (and were originally known, respectively, as Boot and MacAddict). Start

Why the processor socket, an important part of most desktop computers, lost its upgrade path as computers became smaller and more integrated.

The Apple Lisa was expensive, slow, and short-lived. But 40 years later, computers are still building on its legacy.

Thanks for reading Code Solo! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Oftentimes, we choose between an easier solution A and a more robust solution B. Developers tend to pick the one that is more robust. When presented with an alternative, they usually exclaim things like "That won't scale!" or "But what if in the future, there will be X?"

Grafana Labs has inevitably sought to accommodate OpenTelemetry for its famous panel as well as for its open source alternative, including Grafana open source tools.

Posted on Thursday 13 Apr 2023. 313 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

Learn how to use Livebook to build a Machine Learning app and deploy it to Hugging Face in less than 15 minutes.