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A good interview. I take it personally, however, when Bryan says “it’s bad for me when we let in foreign economists.” 🙁 Do buy Bryan’s excellent graphic non-fiction on these questions.

There's a number of datatypes available in PostgreSQL. In this article, we're going to take a look at the array datatype. There are times when you might want to store multiple values in one database column instead of across multiple tables. PostgreSQL gives you this capability with the array datatype.

This tutorial introduces you to PostgreSQL character data types including char, varchar, and text, and give you tips to choose the suitable one for tables.

This tutorial shows you how to use the PostgreSQL CREATE TABLE statement to create new tables.

Is this a want or a need? Do you know anyone who has managed to gain control over things outside of their grasp? Honking at traffic serves no purpose other than to express a need to control the unc…

In 1900, the consensus was, Europe was top dog, Europe would rule the world forever. In 1920, Europe had destroyed itself, and the consensus was,

Enrique Tarrio is selling the merchandise because his organization is in financial disarray.

On location with the masters of the metaverse, the Internet Engineering Task Force.

PostgreSQL is one of the most famous open-source, freely available database management software systems out there. This tutorial will show you how to install the server and client PostgreSQL packages, as well as how to set up a PostgreSQL server on your system.

Fennel is a programming language that brings together the speed, simplicity, and reach of Lua with the flexibility of a lisp syntax and macro system. Full Lua compatibility: Easily call any Lua fun…

This collection highlights some of the many projects and initiatives across Microsoft Research that aim to advance the field of software development.

It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should've settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they?

Kernel development is not for people who lack persistence; changes can take a number of revisions and a lot of time to make it into a mainline release. Even so, the story of the Landlock security module, developed by Mickaël Salaün, seems like an extreme case; this code was merged for 5.13 after more than five years of development and 34 versions of the patch set. This sandboxing mechanism has evolved considerably since LWN covered version 3 of the patch set in 2016, so a look at what Landlock has become is warranted.

A couple of years ago, I worked in a SaaS company that suffered from probably all possible issues with software development. Code was so complex that adding simples changes could take months. All tasks and the scope of the project were defined by the project manager alone. Developers didn’t understand what problem they were solving. Without an understanding the customer’s expectations, many implemented functionalities were useless. The development team was also not able to propose better solutions.

Increasingly applications rely on real-time data, often from multiple data stores in the cloud or on premise, and might even operate on that data before it ever reaches storage. That has created added pressures for data integration as the volume and velocity of data enterprises deal with has increased exponentially. Striim co-founders Ali Kutay, Steve…

Everything does not need to be smart

Why today’s A.I. is not “really” A.I., but it may not matter that much to you.

Council passes resolution 6-0 adopting the new Spokane City Flag! Congratulations @spokaneflag pic.twitter.com/NjC5ZWltA3— Spokane City Council (@Spokane_Council) June 15, 2021

How do you know that you’re giving good feedback? Erin ‘Folletto’ Casali offers a tangible framework for delivering feedback through the lens of the design critique process in this first installmen…

I started baking bread a few years ago. The simplicity appealed to me. With just four ingredients — flour, salt, yeast, and water — I could make a hearty, delicious loaf of bread. I started, as one does with any new recipe, by hewing to the ingredients and directions as closely as possible. Over time, […]

Intel’s IPU improves data center efficiency and manageability and is the only one built in collaboration with hyperscale cloud partners.

First published in FEE, in March 2015.

Almost every project comes in a little bit late and a little bit over budget. When things break, the breaks are rarely lucky ones. Part of the reason is that in proposing the project we made our be…

Rust enables developers to create distributed applications without incurring undefined or unpredictable behavior as in C or C++.

Service mesh and serverless deployment models represent the next phase in the evolution of microservice architectures. Service mesh enables developers to focus on business feature development rather than managing non-functional microservices capabilities such as monitoring, tracing, fault tolerance, and service discovery.

Posted on Wednesday 16 Jun 2021. 2,455 words, 14 links. By Matt Webb.