37 Comparisons Of The Sizes Of Prehistoric Animal Ancestors And Their Modern Relatives By Roman Uchytel | Bored Panda
Roman uses Photoshop to show us a glimpse of things that have passed and most likely will never come back. To be more specific, he recreates prehistoric extinct species of animals and compares them to their modern counterparts.
The Future of Microservices? More Abstractions – The New Stack
Microservices emerged 10 years ago as one of the examples of convergent evolution that sometimes happens in software. While the term can be credited to James Lewis and Martin Fowler at Thoughtworks, the global software consultant, similar ideas were being discussed by Adrian Cockcroft, then at Netflix and many other Silicon Valley firms. Amazon, Google…
Observability Design and Architecture: The Fundamentals – The New Stack
This is Part 1 of a two-part series on how observability design and architecture need to start with the fundamentals: keeping people and process at the center of it all. Part 2 is about the technology aspects. Gaining observability into modern IT environments is a challenge that an increasing number of enterprises are finding difficult…
We did a page speed tests of a popular corporate websites. Here is what we got
Check out unexpected results of an official Google's page speed measurement tool applied to big companies' websites after a month of Core Web Vital update got rolled out!
Secure Your Software Supply Chain – Threats And Mitigations - TRUESEC Blog
If you are developer or manager of a software project, here’s a must-read on how to mitigate the different relevant threats and identifying third party vendors you can trust. #appsec #devsecops #truesec
A digital nomad is defined as someone who uses technology, especially a laptop and a wireless network, to work remotely from anywhere in the world. Digital nomadism has risen from being an idealist…
Porsche Designers Answer the Question: What Would a Porsche Minivan Look Like? - Core77
Porsche's designers routinely "ask themselves what a Porsche could be—and what it could not be," says the company. "This process provides answers to questions that no one has asked before." One question few have probably asked is: What would a Porsche minivan look like? Well, they answered:
Today we’re talking about ALF. It’s a surprising move for Nicole Express; we do not condone cat-eating. But neither did Alf, eventually. In any case, we’re n...
Rust and WebAssembly Serverless Functions in Vercel – The New Stack
Vercel is a leading platform for developing and hosting Jamstack applications. Unlike traditional web apps, where the UI is dynamically generated at runtime from a server, a Jamstack application consists of a static UI (in HTML and JavaScript) and a set of serverless functions to support dynamic UI elements via JavaScript. There are many benefits…
Analyze the Linux kernel with ftrace | Opensource.com
An operating system's kernel is one of the most elusive pieces of software out there. It's always there running in the background from the time your system gets turned on. Every user achieves their computing work with the help of the kernel, yet they never interact with it directly. The interaction with the kernel occurs by making system calls or having those calls made on behalf of the user by various libraries or applications that they use daily.
In episode 2 of this series I noted that the languages in which I’m writing Postgres functions share a common type system. It took me a while to understand how types work in the context of Po…
Which comes first? The feelings, the facts, or the story we tell ourselves that leads to the feelings? It’s surprising that I ended up at the college I went to. Back in 1978, there were two w…
Responsibility Abdication: The path to create flexible business system - Ayende @ Rahien
I had a long conversation with a dev team that are building a non trivial business system. One of the chief problems that they have to deal with is that the ...
Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database
With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.
Avoid this common open source scanning error | Opensource.com
Pete Townshend, legendary guitar player for British rock band The Who, is well-known for playing suspended chords. Suspended chords add musical tension to a song. For those piano players reading this who (like me) love to play in the key of C, simply play a C major chord (the notes C, E, and G) and replace the E note with either an F or a D. You are now on your way to becoming a British rock star!1
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