Tag: Software engineering
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Shaving 40% off Google's B-Tree implementation with Go Generics
Posted on August 8, 2022, Level advanced Resource Length medium
There are many reasons to be excited about generics in Go. In this article, I'm going to show how, using Go generics, ScyllaDB achieved a 40% performance gain in an already well-optimized package, the Google B-Tree implementation. By Michal Matcczuk.
Tags backend-development product-and-design software-engineering
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How to reduce the size of a Docker image using dive
Posted on July 30, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Making use of the existing layer cache as frequently as possible is key to speeding up Docker image builds. The less work we have to redo across builds, the faster our builds will be. By Kyle Galbraith.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design software-engineering
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Why your cached JavaScript is still slow and incurs performance overhead
Posted on July 22, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Web Developers often fixate on optimizing the delivery of assets to the end-user's device, and overlook the computation that takes place on the end-user's device once those assets arrive. By Joe Liccini.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile how-to software-engineering
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How UI kits develop design languages
Posted on July 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
A robust UI kit can help elevate a brand's look and feel with cohesive, innovative visualization. Here's how. By Goran Paun.
Tags miscellaneous product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Extending SQLite with Rust to support Excel files as virtual tables
Posted on July 18, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This article explains how SQLite can be extended with Rust. In particular, it will outline SQLite's mechanism called virtual tables and showcase how we can use it from Rust programming language. By Sergey Khabibullin.
Tags software-engineering product-and-design
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Using design patterns in JavaScript - Ultimate guide
Posted on July 16, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Design patterns are reusable, advanced, object-oriented solutions that we can use to address similar instances of everyday problems in software design. They are like blueprints for solving certain kinds of problems. By Nishani Dissanayake.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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Spinning with Swift
Posted on July 15, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Swift is a great language for creating Spin applications. This tutorial walks through the process of installing SwiftWasm, building a simple Wagi app, and then running it in Spin. Spin is a framework for building and running event-driven microservice applications with WebAssembly (Wasm) components. With Spin, we're trying to make it easier to get started with using WebAssembly on the server so that we can all take advantage of the security, portability, and speed WebAssembly provides when it comes to running microservices. By Matt Butcher.
Tags frontend-and-mobile software-engineering product-and-design
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Fewer working hours, more productivity
Posted on July 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It seems like a counterintuitive question: how can employees get more done in less time? Surely, if we want employees to be productive, we need to give them more time to work, not less? But recent studies have shown that shorter working hours can lead to increased productivity. By @quire.io.
Tags miscellaneous software-engineering product-and-design
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Scaling up and load balancing your PostgreSQL Cluster using Pgpool-II
Posted on July 12, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
PostgreSQL's speed, robustness and security makes it suitable for 99% of the new-age applications. Today, let's deep dive into how you can enable scalability and load balancing of your PostgreSQL cluster using Pgpool-II. By Azman Agung Nugraha.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering architecture-and-apis backend-development
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Interview: Haskell in production @Channable
Posted on July 11, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interview with Fabian Thorand @Channable. They use Haskell for a variety of backend services. The biggest one by far is their data processing system, which powers the import from our customers, manages the data storage, and applies the user-defined rules to the data before streaming it to other components in our backend which handle the actual connections to the third-party platforms. By Liam Mooney.
Tags software-engineering product-and-design
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Understanding the stack and heap in C#
Posted on July 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Based on my reading, "the stack" and "the heap" are clearly important concepts for understanding how memory is managed in C# programs, however until recently I had only a superficial understanding of them and their role. By Liam Mooney.
Tags software-engineering product-and-design
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Pair programming approach for engaging girls in the computing classroom: Study results
Posted on July 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Authors share the second report in our series of findings from the Gender Balance in Computing research programme, which they've been running as part of the National Centre for Computing Education and with various partners. By Katharine Childs.
Tags miscellaneous software-engineering leadership-and-career