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Thuan Pham, hired as Uber’s chief technology officer by former CEO Travis Kalanick back in 2013, is leaving the company in three weeks, the ride-share giant revealed today in an SEC filing that came out just as The Information reported that massive layoffs…

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Cross-platform implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol. - microsoft/msquic

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Learning from our errors in data visualisation

When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith. At QCon London, Alexandra Noonan told…

React re-rendering explained and how to optimize React's re-render performance

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