We successfully deployed ThreadSanitizer in the Firefox project to eliminate data races in our remaining C/C++ components.

Package zap provides fast, structured, leveled logging.

Let's talk about the many networking shifts we've seen over the last few ... decades and the languages that enable them.

Not all apps come with the shortcut keys for you to do the things you want. Learn how to use AutoHotkey to create app-specific shortcut keys.

With cloud computing and serverless technology, where most systems are distributed by nature, flakiness can become a major concern for companies whose primary products are software. What’s more, the bigger an organization’s systems get, the greater the likelihood that they’ll end up with even more flaky tests. So, why are flaky tests such a menace…

What’s this got to do with Big Blue's hybrid cloud obsession? Cloudifying COBOL ... until you repent and go back to z/OS

Languages, platforms, and systems that break from the norms of computing

I like turtles.

Some folks like to rearrange furniture. Other folks like to try new shoes or redecorate their bedroom on the regular. Me? I try out Linux desktops. After drooling over some of the incredible desktop environments I've seen online, I got curious about one window manager in particular: bspwm.

Whenever you're working with a group of programmers on a project, whether small or large, handling changes between multiple Git branches can become difficult. Sometimes, instead of combining an entire Git branch into a different one, you want to select and move a couple of specific commits. This procedure is known as "cherry-picking." This article will cover the what, why, and how of cherry-picking. So let's start.

Research and Development, or R&D, spending is a critical expense for companies looking succeed in the future—depending on which industry that company is in. Watching trends in R&D spending, particularly as a percentage of revenue, can help investors get an idea of how forward thinking a company is being. R&D spending is a main operating …

Return on research capital (RORC), can help investors measure how much profit R&D spending actually generates.

Looking outside of higher ed.

In this article, I will cover the implementation of Merkle Tree and Patricia Trie. Also, we’d cover some theoretical aspects for both…

In a distributed peer-to-peer system, data verification is important. This is because the data is distributed across systems and it needs…

Merkle trees are a data storage technique that is especially useful in distributed systems. This tutorial will cover what you need to know about merkle trees.

New to Merkle Trees? Want to know more about them? Check out this article for everything you need to know about Merkle Trees…

Like Prometheus, but for logs. Contribute to grafana/loki development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Segment team's latest thinking on all things data, product, marketing, and growth.

We have ended up in a world where UNIX and Windows have taken over, and most people have never experienced anything else. Over the years,...

API vs Web Services: The Basic Concept, Examples, and Difference. What is API Testing, Types & Benefits, Key Difference Between Web Services and APIs, Types of APIs,

A widespread fallacy among IT professionals is that DNS propagates through some network. But DNS propagation does not exist.

Over the last few years, the software development community’s love affair with the popular open-source relational database has reached a…

We have ended up in a world where UNIX and Windows have taken over, and most people have never experienced anything else. Over the years,...

Bitemporal history has two dimensions: actual and record, allowing us to comprehend retroactive changes.

The longer we live in the new digital world, the more we are seeing it replicate systemic issues we’ve been fighting for decades. In the case of movie studios, what we’ve seen in the last few years

If major companies think it’s too hard or costly to leave up sites filled with user-generated content, perhaps we need to change the motivations.