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When people talk about monetizing, they’re usually talking about some sort of scheme. Because anything that needs to be monetized can’t just be simple. If it was simple, you wouldn’t need a word li…

Liskov Substitution Principle is the L in the SOLID programming principles. It was announced to the world by Barbara Liskov in a 1987 conference keynote address titled Data abstraction and hierarchy. In that academic setting, using academic linguo, Liskov stated that in a computer program, if S is a subtype of T, then objects of […]

Fast Unit Root Tests and OLS regression in C++ with wrappers for R and Python - GitHub - olmallet81/URT: Fast Unit Root Tests and OLS regression in C++ with wrappers for R and Python

How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company’s cash and nearly left it for dead.

Choosing the right interconnect for high-performance compute and storage platforms is critical for achieving the highest possible system performance and

🎒 Backpack is a minimalistic build system for Node.js projects. - GitHub - jaredpalmer/backpack: 🎒 Backpack is a minimalistic build system for Node.js projects.

There are a smorgasbord of database engines out there. From an outside perspective, Postgres is just another on a steadily growing pile of structured data storage mechanisms. Similarly to programming languages like Rust and Go, it's the new and shiny database systems like MongoDB that tend to garner the most attention. On the other hand, more established engines like Oracle or MySQL have a vastly larger lead that seems insurmountable. In either case, enthusiasm and support is likely to be better represented in exciting or established installations. So why? Why out of the myriad choices available, use Postgres? I tend to get asked this question by other DBAs or systems engineers that learn I strongly advocate Postgres. It's actually a pretty fair inquiry, so why not make it the subject of the first PG Phriday for 2017? What distinguishes it from its brethren so strongly that I staked my entire career on it?

A model for integration of the two most popular open messaging protocols leveraging the greatest strengths of both.

The phrase "You are Not Expected to Understand This" is probably the most famous comment in the history of Unix. And last month, at the Systems We Love conference in San Francisco, systems researcher Arun Thomas explained to an audience exactly what it was that they weren't supposed to understand. Computer science teacher Ozan Onay, who…

Feature A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  It looked nothing like an iPhone, or anything Apple might dare to make. On September 10, 2013, the day Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, Dutch designer Dave Hakkens uploaded a video to YouTube to promote his college graduation project: Phonebloks, “a […]

A transparent and secure way to look up public keys. - GitHub - google/keytransparency: A transparent and secure way to look up public keys.

Posted by Ryan Hurst and Gary Belvin, Security and Privacy Engineering Encryption is a foundational technology for the web. We’ve spent a l...

HashiCorp's new-ish CEO Dave McJannet (he started in August) has had a long history of tech leadership: He came from GitHub, and before that he held executive positions at Hortonworks and at VMware's SpringSource, building up that business that went on to become a core building block of Pivotal. Since we last touched base with HashiCorp, the company…

In past Off-The-Shelf Hacker projects, like the PIR Yard Sensor, data was simply exchanged to/from the ESP8266 with my Linux notebook, using text, over the network. The methodology created one server (the notebook) and one client (the ESP8266 device). While this worked fine for prototyping and getting to know Internet of Things basics, it doesn't…

Colleges and universities are going to need to prove their value or risk losing their best marketing pitch in decades about why it's worth going to their institution.

Here’s a fun fact about mathematicians: they love chalkboards. Especially the old fashioned ones, with actual chalk and those dusty erasers. There are a…