The Expense of Unprotected Free Software: It's high time FOSS maintainers got a bit of appreciation
Until the big guns manage to sort things out, we're just going to need to take care of things however we can. The best we can hope for, of course, is to convince companies, institutions, and governments that it would be a really good idea to cut monthly ...
Repeat, Reproduce, Replicate: The pressure to publish versus the will to defend scientific claims
Unless a result relies on a specific hardware trick, such as a proprietary accelerator or modified instruction set, it is possible to reproduce the results of one group by a different one. Unlike the physicists we don't have to build a second Hadron ...
Working Models for Tackling Tech Debt: Understand the options to tailor an approach that suits your needs
Remember that not all debt is bad, and sometimes, in fact, strategic tech debt can even be used as a valuable tool to achieve certain business goals?just as financial debt can be taken on to obtain capital that can be invested in other profitable ...
Transactions and Serverless are Made for Each Other: If serverless platforms could wrap functions in database transactions, they would be a good fit for database-backed applications.
Database-backed applications are an exciting new frontier for serverless computation. By tightly integrating application execution and data management, a transactional serverless platform enables many new features not possible in either existing ...
You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth: If you're an ISP and all your customers hate you, take heart. This is now a solvable problem.
Bandwidth probably isn't the problem when your employees or customers say they have terrible Internet performance. Once they have something in the range of 50 to 100 Mbps, the problem is latency, how long it takes for the ISP's routers to process their ...
Toward Effective AI Support for Developers: A survey of desires and concerns
The journey of integrating AI into the daily lives of software engineers is not without its challenges. Yet, it promises a transformative shift in how developers can translate their creative visions into tangible solutions. As we have seen, AI tools such ...
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