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Saving cloud costs by writing our own database
Original EnglishI remember someone on my team working on the Spanner integration with our product, which was basically an in-memory database, but we needed durability.
Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora
Original EnglishThis is also the deployment method I use most often with Netlify.
Life Lessons After 10 Years of BetterExplained.com
Original EnglishI can share quite similar numbers: I run my business for 10 years now.
I found a one-char typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions library
Original EnglishI see bugs all the time in a lot of the software I use daily.
Apple Developer Center still down
Original EnglishI even dropped EAGLE, despite being "native", in favor of Altera on Windows, which I paid a hefty premium for in no small part because …
The sad state of property-based testing libraries
Original EnglishI've tried to replicate your issue in the Elm testing library I'm a maintainer of, which uses some of the core ideas from Hypothesis.
You Don't Need the Cloud
Original EnglishI used a device to send about 1000 readings and it cost me around $150 USD.
Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
Original EnglishEasily 200x the throughput, and 99.9% of all parallel bugs disappeared overnight (well, after we launched, I mean).
Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client
Original EnglishBut unfortunately (on Linux at least) all the GUI IMAP clients I've tried are terrible.