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> Finally, let’s revisit that global state problem. After the contagious deadlock bug, we concluded we need to evolve past a single cluster. So we took on a project we call “region…

None of these tests seem to run for longer than a minute? Drawing conclusions from experiments like this is fraught.

We use Makefile "libraries" to reduce the amount of boilerplate each of our microservices have to contain. This then allows us to change our testing practices in bulk throughout al…

The group behind Arrakis did some testing by bypassing the kernel through NIC's and the results were pretty amazing. They also made modifications to memcached and got similarly gre…

Zed's said on twitter that he's been messing with Go. It might be somewhere on his work queue to write about it.

There's been some talk of it but they haven't committed to anything. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rethinkdb/meteor/...

The flag package might not be perfect but the author wasn't even using it properly so it's hard to judge it based off of this example.

FWIW, the Golang core developers regret using the old UNIX conventions in packages. I don't think it's viable at this stage to take them back, but they do agree that it doesn't fit…

Their chosen solutions to the GC issues are in this roadmap. [0] [0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLo...

generally they just rely on you having a .edu email address so I suspect you have access to the discounts.

It's worth noting they appear to be working closely [1] with Valloric to ensure that vim plugins will easily work with NeoVim. [1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/582

it looks like they copied in the entire sqlite3 library which skewed the language makeup. https://github.com/drone/drone/search?l=c

There are some interesting implications on databases in terms of column-stores vs row-stores due to CPU caching. Besides the I/O improvements, column-stores benefit greatly from be…

That's pretty accurate. Column-stores also make data compression significantly more effective because they are storing many values of the same type together [1]. The improvements t…

They actually have a set of files and libraries that they ignore (.DS_Store/jquery/boostrap/etc) https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

This seems pretty incredible that CodeCombat has already reached the point where they're placing people into jobs. It's supposed to be Codecademy's goal [1] to do that eventually b…

I suspect it's to do with the 100% uptime they should be aiming for. They might have some other interesting stuff they're working on as well.