Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep
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Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep
You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is pegged at 100% doing nothing useful. This is the synchronization primitive trap…
Microservices should form a polytree
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Microservices should form a polytree | ByteSauna
microservices, microservice architecture, polytree, distributed systems, service dependencies, system design, software architecture, scalability, fault tolerance
Is vibe coding actually insecure? New CMU paper benchmarks vulnerabilities in agent-generated code
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Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated...
Vibe coding is a new programming paradigm in which human engineers instruct large language model (LLM) agents to complete complex coding tasks with little supervision. Although it is increasingly...
When a small open-source tool suddenly blows up, the experience is nothing like people imagine
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Windows Post-Install Script Generator
Automate Windows setup with custom batch scripts. Free browser tool.
How do you modernize a legacy tech stack without a complete rewrite?
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Learn how to incrementally migrate a legacy system by gradually replacing specific pieces of functionality with new applications and services.
Go 1.26 package: runtime/secret -- zeros out registers and memory after running a function run in secret mode
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Go proposal: Secret mode
Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.
Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries
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Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries
Last week urllib3 v2.6.0 was released which contained removals for
several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and
have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations
were marked in the...
several APIs that we've known were problematic since 2019 and
have been deprecated since 2022. The deprecations
were marked in the...