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All of us - software engineers - use <code class="inline">git</code> every day, however most people only ever touch the most basic of commands, such as...

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1 has been released with dozens of improvements to various parts of the IDE listed in this blog post.

If you like fast CI builds, hate having to wait for an eternity for CI to complete a build after you open a PR, and love reducing infra costs, read on.

I argue autotools’ convoluted nature is what enabled the xz backdoor in the first place. The truth is nobody needs to use autotools, and I show why.

TextQuery is a desktop app to import data file as a table, query it using SQL.

ClangQL is a tool that allow you to run SQL-like query on C/C++ Code instead of database files using the GitQL SDK - AmrDeveloper/ClangQL

bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for each program. - Netflix/bpftop

The suit is the federal government’s most significant challenge to the reach and influence of the company.

Recently there’s been an increasing number of discussion on how union types (type-unions, enums in some languages) are awesome and much…

In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control…

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The year 2024 has well passed through Q1 now. Serverless compute started with Google App Engine 16 years ago (released on April 7th, 2008)…

Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next.

Evolving technology is changing the nature of warfare. Software has transformed from a means of operating hardware-based weapons systems to being the es...

Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.

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