Explains Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) in SQL Server 2019/Azure SQL, a feature designed to drastically reduce transaction rollback and database recovery times.
A guide to using the GitHub API and PyGithub to automatically filter and close spam pull requests based on keywords.
A preview of Lucidlink and ExtraHop's cloud-focused products ahead of their Cloud Field Day 6 presentations.
Explores a simpler alternative to Docker for deploying Python web apps, comparing it to common methods and containers.
A student requests help finding a Summer 2020 software engineering internship, sharing their skills and preferences for small teams or specific tech sectors.
A tutorial on creating animated bar chart races in R using gganimate, applied to visualize historical temperature trends in Berlin.
The article critiques the Free Software Foundation's pedantic language, arguing it alienates potential supporters and harms the free software movement's growth.
A developer shares progress on free software projects including a Wayland book, sway 1.2, aerc email client, mrsh shell, and ctools utilities.
A technical preview of NetApp and Dell's cloud strategies ahead of Cloud Field Day 6, focusing on their evolution into cloud, DevOps, and Kubernetes.
Announcing a new weekly newsletter curating cloud-native security news and updates for professionals.
Introducing a built-in file input component for Blazor, enabling file uploads and processing in both client-side and server-side applications.
A guide to Git basics for IT operators new to source control, covering key concepts and commands to get started easily.
An advanced guide to pytest features like parametrized tests, fixtures, and organizing large test suites, based on a Python Frederick presentation.
A developer's guide to implementing granular caching with Spring's RedisTemplate to cache individual items from a collection-based method.
Explains why parentheses cause R code assignments to print their values, covering invisibility flags and the behavior of the `(` function.
Explains why the rimu R package avoids tidyverse for type safety with multiple-response data, using a custom S3 class approach.
A technical comparison of parallel processing methods in PowerShell 7, evaluating the new ForEach-Object Parallel feature against the established PoshRSJob module.
Explores intrinsic reasons why a senior software engineer might choose to remain an individual contributor instead of pursuing a management career path.
A developer's guide to choosing programming languages, comparing pros and cons of C, Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, and Haskell.
A preview of Morpheus Data and HashiCorp ahead of Cloud Field Day 6, analyzing their cloud management and infrastructure automation platforms.
