I love the database.news by Sam Lambert and I tried to create its evil twin: The DB Grill! Enjoy: db-grill.com

I had a great time talking to Ben and Will about software testing and validation at AWS. In this wide-ranging hour we talk deterministic simulation testing, fuzzing, formal methods, the history and future of testing, and much more.

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And finished to rework 6th part of posts for learning assembly programming for Linux x86_64 - github.com/0xAX/asm/blob/…

I had been meaning to comment on Jonathan Blow’s “Why can’t we even conceive of writing a new OS today” post. Coincidentally, I just got an email that opened with: ——————————————— Hey John, 2 years ago I pitched you LIBBA - a dedicated OS for smart glasses. You were

ARM is hiring compiler engineers to work on GCC/ LLVM linkedin.com/jobs/view/4289…

C++ geeks can be funny too! 😅 "Note: this is an early draft. It’s known to be incomplet and incorrekt, and it has lots of bad formatting."

TIL: async-profiler can create heatmaps showing events over time. You can drill down into arbitrary time intervals with 20ms granularity.

Tip: If you are on Ubuntu `sudo apt install bcc` and then `sudo biolatency-bpfcc -e 1` gives you nice histograms of I/O device latencies. Powered by eBPF.

Mind. . . blown!🤯 lwn.net/SubscriberLink…

Last week, I described a gloomy situation: all public TLS certificate providers log your requests. By browsing through the subdomains, one can get their respective IP addresses. My solution caters to my Synology NAS, as it’s the one I’m using. blog.frankel.ch/privacy-subdom…

#PostgreSQL Are you a maintainer of a driver for Postgres? We would like to get as many as possible together in Vancouver next year at pgconf.dev. Please reach out to me and or spread the word to developers

QuestDB 9.1 is out. While the release includes tons of features like nanosecond timestamp precision, my favorite DX addition is that thanks to Jaromir Hamala it now ships with built-in async-profiler. github.com/questdb/questd…

What S3 API server implementation do people use in *tests* these days? Minio/LocalStack used to be popular, but that's probably overkill for tests? Is there anything simpler and compliant-enough?

Thought I’d seen every kind of race condition. But a bug caused by a race between stdout and stderr? That’s new. Yes, it bit me. Yes, figuring it out was painful. Details: github.com/microsoft/azur…

My book is today’s Manning Publications deal of the day!

It's funny how last week everyone was dunking on Supabase for their not-an-outage, and replying angrily to a post of mine where I defended them, saying that no, no, they had to have a multi-cloud strategy, deploy to the moon, shard to mars, completely unacceptable... Turns out

It’s the world’s first #CPU! Almost 54 years ago, on November 15th 1971, #Intel launched the first commercial single-chip microprocessor. With the following tweets, let’s jointly explore the greatest milestone in #computing #history after the invention of the #transistor!

My new bug: Race between stdout and stderr causing CI builds to fail. questdb.com/blog/azure-pip…