Of all the questions I get on Twitter the most common is this: “How do you build a town?” We know how it used to be done, but these last two centuries we have forgotten how to do it.

Suppose you have a function method that accepts a sized buffer in the form of a pointer plus a length. How defensive do you need to be about validating the parameters? A customer wanted to know, “How can I validate that caller passed a buffer of the declared size?

As processors bring ever higher levels of bandwidth on-chip, embedded ASIC and SoC designers have migrated to the PCI-Express . . .

High latency can make your computer run slowly. Learn what latency means, why latency is so high, and how to reduce latency.

Syntropy is an open project providing next-generation connectivity technology for the Internet. Syntropy is designed to solve issues prevalent in the current Internet framework, including security, privacy, governance, performance, reliability, and ineffective resource utilization.

In this article, i will provide a small and very basic/simple insight over Noia Network project, together with very useful links:

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The Linux kernel is, as a whole, licensed under the GPLv2, but various parts and pieces are licensed under other compatible licenses and/or dual-licensed. That picture was much murkier only a few years back, before the SPDX in the kernel project cleaned up the licensing information in most of the kernel source by specifying the licenses, by name rather than boilerplate text, directly in the files. A recent move to add yet another license into the mix is encountering some headwinds, but the license in question was already being used in a few kernel files, and has been for four years at this point.

git pull is broken and should not be used. Here’s why.

Japanese services giant deepens ties with Microsoft and reckons it can address Japan’s ageing population

If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here

With modern technology, people are looking at screens throughout the entire day, but sometimes our brains (and our eyes) need a break. Unfortunately, us programmers do not get a break so often. We cannot work without interacting with screens, and there isn't much way around it, or is there? In

Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature is causing a 15% to 20% drop in revenue for iOS advertisers, according to a mobile marketing executive.

The conventional view of Software Testing The hardware and software worlds may seem poles apart, and in many ways, they indeed are. But there’s a wealth of knowledge that each can learn from the ot…

Farming robots could lead us towards an environmentally friendly abundant utopia, or a dystopia of heavy machinery and low-quality harvests.

In today’s episode, we get together with William Jeffries to ask all our most pressing questions relating to GitOps. Tuning in you’ll hear why GitOps uses a pull-based system instead of a push-based system and how GitOps can facilitate better security practices through an improved threat model. William explains when and how to apply GitOps to your project and why he is so excited about the work being done by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. For all this and much more, tune in today as we get to the bottom of what GitOps means for the future of development!

For more context on why this project came to be, see: All Clusters Must Die.  To learn if cloud native actually means anything, read on.

Building confidence on the resilience of a home automation system.

Posted on Tuesday 13 Jul 2021. 1,184 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

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An essay looking at some of the best arguments *against* my personal view--that doing the "real" thing is essential for learning.

The MTA Live Subway App makes it easier to catch your train with live status updates

At the top tier of just about any sort of endeavor, you’ll find that the performers have coaches. Pianists, orators and athletes all have coaches. In fact, it would be weird if we heard of so…

General-purpose OLTP/OLAP databases are great, and not re-inventing the wheel is always a good principle. However, it doesn’t mean all query use-cases are easy to implement correctly, run quickly or at a reasonable cost. Often, there’s a significant effort to design and manage the database to make it somehow support the needed scale and complexity…

As many of you know from reading The Next Platform, we are firm believers that eventually we will get disaggregated and composable systems that drive up