Spanner is a distributed database Google initiated a while ago to build a highly available and highly consistent database for its own workloads. Spanner was initially built to be a key/value and was in a completely different shape than it is today and it had different goals. Sinc...
Talks about the valiant but almost-dead 10-year effort to prevent tracking with the Do Not Track header.
I’ve seen a lot of complicated code in my life. Pretty often, the reason of that complexity was application logic coupled with database logic. Keeping logic of your application along with your database logic makes your application much more complex, hard to test, and mainta...
An overview of the new features in Lua 5.4 (LWN.net).
We’re approaching the first anniversary of when I stepped down from my operating role at Splice. The company kept on growing rapidly and be impactful, I am very proud of what the team is doing to change things from within the music industry. I had a blast during my time off...
#GopherCon is now #GoVirCon! With increasing cases of coronavirus in the US, travel bans and restrictions holding strong likely through the end of the year, and Gopher Academy’s increasing concern regarding the health and well-being of our community members, at the end of J...
An overview of Hugo, a flexible static website generator written in Go and optimized for speed (LWN.net).
Series Index Python and Go: Part I - gRPC Python and Go: Part II - Extending Python With Go Python and Go: Part III - Packaging Python Code Python and Go: Part IV - Using Python in Memory Introduction In the previous post we saw how a Go service can call a Python service using gR...
Gives some background, the current state, and potential timeline for including generics in the Go programming language (LWN.net).