How to migrate databases ensuring continuous site reliability? What are the differences between Mongo DB and Postgres? Voucherify’s story of switching databases without downtime.

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In Firefox both border and text have the same color (#880000), but in Safar...

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This is bad Tetris. It's hateful Tetris. It's Tetris according to the evil AI from "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream".
I have to be honest, this is not an entirely original idea. However, RRRR's implementation of the concept of a game…

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I often talk to programmers who say "Don't put multiple return statements in the same method." When I ask them to tell me the reasons why, all I get is "The coding standard says so." or "It's conf...

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Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.

Researchers say the new network will be unhackable and able to coordinate systems to unprecedented levels. Many of the deeper implications, however, cannot be foreseen.

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Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and futur

25 years ago, on May 9th 1996, release 1.00 of the Objective Caml language and system was announced: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/1996-05/msg00003.html It was already the consolidation of many years of work, integrating Jérôme Vouillon and…

Almost everyone has opened an EXE file in a text editor and been mystified by the apparent nonsense. How does a computer make sense of it? Let’s uncover the illusion.

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Twitter engineers found and fixed a Linux kernel bug in memory shrinker which caused OOM for us.

Last week, I described a use-case for a custom Stream Collector. I received a intriguing comment on Twitter: Interesting article. For completness' sake this specific problem could also be solved using the standard teeing collector— Miguel Martins (@Miguucm)…

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