Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ? Kian Nassiri's master thesis compares message queuing systems. Which has best performance and scalability in 2021?

A primary goal is to keep your credentials and data secure. Hashing and salting of passwords and cryptographic hash functions are used to…

In web development it’s a common trope that working with legacy code is considered boring, painful, or even beneath us. Only the shiniest new framework or tech stack will do! The truth, however, is that legacy code is impossible to avoid. But don’t worry, that’s actually a good thing.

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A basic guide to how ActiveRecord::Locking::Optimistic can help protect your users & application from overwriting data with stale information.

We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough.

Remote working can increase the risk of cyber attacks. Can you work from home with cyber security in place? Learn more about it here.

PROMO Today’s AI and HPC systems can encompass 1,000s of CPUs and GPUs, all drawing on vast amounts of memory and storage. And, if we’re honest, all over

After a mass Internet outage on Tuesday, Fastly announced one of its customers changing settings was to blame.

Redis gained very high popularity as being a cache. It is fast and easy to use. Let us show you why you should use Redis as a cache.

How do you act when you’re in charge? Or when someone else is in control? How do you act when you win? Or when you lose? Is there a difference between the times you’ve been given the be…

AWS Proton helps customers adopt, customize and evolve best practices and technologies for delivering their modern applications to the cloud.

Extended BPF (eBPF), the general-purpose execution engine inside of the Linux kernel, has proved helpful for tracing and monitoring the system, for processing network packets, or generally for extending the behavior of the kernel. So helpful, in fact, that developers working on other operating systems have been watching it. Dave Thaler and Poorna Gaddehosur, on behalf of Microsoft, recently published an implementation of eBPF for Windows. A Linux feature making its way to Windows, in itself, deserves attention. Even more so when that feature has brought new degrees of programmability to the Linux kernel over the last few years. This makes it especially interesting to look at what the new project can do, and to ponder how the current ecosystem might evolve as eBPF begins its journey toward Windows.

This chart caught my eye yesterday: It's from Robin Dunbar's recent book, Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships. You might recall the author's name from his concept of Dunbar's number:1

Injuries are an unfortunate part of football and something every team has to deal with, however, each team has differing injury rates. For example, as a Chargers fan my pre-season hopes drop every …

FPGA-driven prototypes yet to prove the company's bold performance and power-draw claims

Posted on Wednesday 9 Jun 2021. 421 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

My first PDA was Palm m105, I used it in 2001. 20 years later I decided to check, how the last generation of Palm OS devices was looking…

The evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar explains the limits on how many connections humans can keep up, and the trade-offs involved when you invest in a new relationship.

Arjun Menon of the Michigan Football Analytics Society took a closer look at some of our adjusted games lost numbers over the last decade, identifying the teams with the best and worst injury records.

Many developers are skeptical of using low-code tooling to build software. Buying software instead of building it has advantages, especially when your goal is to iterate faster.

Back when canals were the easiest way to move cargo, horses provided the motive power for the cargo-laden barges. These horses walked along an established towpath alongside the canal, pulling the barges by rope. Due to geography and logistics, sometimes the towpath had to switch from one side of the

Part 2: Replication-Explained: Designing Distributed systems Overview: Original paper: The Google File System Authors: Sanjay Ghemawat, Howa...

Are math and science required competencies for programming? Based on my personal experience: definitely, maybe, not.

Discussing the radiant techniques required to shrink-wrap an object before you buy it. You can thank frozen turkeys for making it possible.

For Part 1, check this out Designing Distributed File Storage Systems - Explained with Google File System(GFS) Overview: Replication in dist...

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A CEO says leaders who say things like “Get back into the office,” or “Return to the way things used to be,” are missing the opportunity to realize what has been learned.

A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.