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tcplife: a new Linux bcc tool for tracing TCP sessions with lifespan duration and other details, using kernel dynamic tracing and enhanced BPF (eBPF).

G Suite is designed to help you do your best work, whether that’s through real-time collaboration that brings your teams together or machine intelligence that speeds up everyday tasks. But we understand your company has unique needs and workflows that G Suite alone wasn’t built to address. We also know your teams rely on many third-party apps for things like CRM, support, and project management to get their job done. So today, we’re announcing two new ways to customize and extend your experience on the G Suite platform: App Maker, a new low-code developer tool for building custom enterprise applications, and the addition of seven new partners to our “Recommended for G Suite” third-party partner program.Introducing App Maker, a new way to build powerful apps for your business.App Maker is a low-code, application development tool that lets you quickly build and deploy custom apps tailored to your organization’s needs. Whether you’re looking for better ways to onboard new team members, staff projects, or approve employee travel requests, App Maker helps you build an app for that in days instead of months. Go from idea to app, fast: App Maker makes it easy for IT or even citizen developers (including analysts and system administrators) to quickly iterate from a prototype all the way to deployed app. It offers a powerful cloud-based IDE that features built-in templates, a drag-and-drop UI, and point-and-click data modeling to accelerate your app development efforts. App Maker also embraces open, and popular standards like HTML, CSS, Javascript and Google’s material design visual framework, so developers can build apps quickly, in a development environment that leverages their existing skills and knowledge.

Before you can launch a new service, you need infrastructure. You want reliability, scalability, and many other -ilities. But you don’t want to break the bank. I’ve gone through the process of launching several new services over the past few years. Each time, I’ve explored the field

If you’re like me then you might feel that the switch statement stands out awkwardly among other programming constructs. Obviously…

CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. The main rule of CoffeeScript is “It is just JavaScript” and indeed, it is just that. CoffeeScript Product page

Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly

This paper appeared in ASPLOS 2016 and the authors are Leesatapornwongsa, Lukman, Lu, and Gunawi. The paper provides a comprehensive study...

Method names should tell you what they do, rather than how they're used

In this blog post, I explore the six different dimensions I covered in my recent talk at the O’Reilly Software Architecture conference in London called “The Well Rounded Architect.” The elements of the well-rounded architect Acting as a Leader Being a developer Having a systems focus Thinking like an entrepreneur Balancing strategic with tactical thinking […]

Pagination, pervasive as it is in web applications, is easy to implement inefficiently. This post examines different methods of server-side pagination and their tradeoffs in PostgreSQL. Methods explored include limit-offset, cursors, keyset pagination, as well as more exotic techniques.

The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan was one of the most devastating environmental events of our time, with its overall impact rippling across the globe for years to come. But just as stated in Newton's third law—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—so too did the peo

Organic chemistry doesn't care if you believe in it. Neither does the War of 1812.  Truth is real, it's measurable and it happened. Truth is not in the eye of the beholder. There are…

Sorting through the confusing sets of numbers in Trump’s deportation plan.

There was a lot of talk about deporting millions of illegal immigrants immediately, but as The New York Times shows, the actual number that could be deported is much less. Haeyoun Park and Troy Gri…

Explore the history of Japanese Puzzle Boxes. The Himitsu-Bako (personal secret box) was designed over 100 years ago and continues to be produced in the Hakone-Odawara region of Japan.

Power rankings based on employment, housing, and other trends show which states are poised for growth and which are falling behind.

New research shows that giant manta rays, known only to consume plankton near the ocean surface, are far more predatory than we thought, swimming to extreme depths to catch their prey.

Physics has a bit of an image problem. To some, it’s a fascinating and diverse field of study. To others, it’s a trigger word for math anxiety, or an instant soporific.

It's called 'Wizardhood'

You just got a new PC game! Hoo buddy, you are excited. You’ve been looking forward to this one for years. You load it up and… oh, hell.

Incident management experts explain how to quickly restore service and prevent future outages.

Find three signs that you should be aware of for maintainable CSS. Catch them early and plan accordingly.

How hackers start their afternoons.