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Migrating complex systems requires careful planning and execution to avoid disrupting services and user experience. Approaches like hard forking, splitting teams, or relying on single individuals are discouraged. Instead, the "Strangler Fig Pattern" is recommended, where the new system gradually replaces parts of the old system without affecting customers, minimizing downtime and risk.
DBOS, a durable workflow engine built on Postgres, uses Postgres' features to store workflow state, providing "save points" that enable recovery from crashes. DBOS functions, written in Python or TypeScript, use decorators to manage workflow steps, storing each step's state and output in the Postgres database for deterministic execution.
Server-side rendering in Next.js can be slow due to its CPU-intensive nature, especially in horizontally scaled environments where caching inconsistencies arise. Valkey, an in-memory data store, offers performance gains through autopipelining, automatically batching operations. It's a solution for shared caching that provides consistent results across all instances.
After a four-year break focused on writing and family, Redis' creator is returning to the Redis ecosystem. His decision stems from a desire to contribute to the community, address its fragmentation, and help shape the future direction of Redis development. It's a part-time role.
Tailwind CSS v4 has great improvements like the switch to LightningCSS and native CSS cascade layers, but this author has concerns about the performance implications of CSS variables, the potential for abuse with new descendant variants, and the lack of clarity in some class names.
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You can shrug off flaky tests once or twice, but eventually they will stall your pull requests and bum you out. Check out this article by Artem Zakharchenko [9] to find out how you can use Codecov's Test Analytics to flag unreliable tests early and keep your CI/CD running
Netlify has launched a free plan that offers 100 GB bandwidth, 300 build minutes, and other generous limits for deploying web projects.
Turso announced Limbo, a complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust, aiming for improved memory safety, modern architecture, and potentially surpassing SQLite's reliability through deterministic simulation testing, while maintaining compatibility and offering features like asynchronous I/O and WASM support.
Electric, a Postgres sync engine enabling real-time data replication for local apps, is now in beta after a six-month rewrite. It's used in production by companies like Google and Supabase to handle high-throughput workloads with low latency.
Google announced its new 105-qubit superconducting chip, "Willow," which demonstrated a fault-tolerant surface code qubit and a new quantum supremacy experiment. It's a major achievement in experimental quantum computing, pushing the field closer to fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Physical time (instants and durations measured in seconds) is different from civil time (datetimes and periods based on calendar systems like the Gregorian calendar), as there are more complexities and potential for bugs when dealing with civil time. It's important to use well-defined time zones (like those from the IANA database) and avoid ambiguous types like "zoned datetime.” This guide provides language-specific API recommendations for handling date and time operations well.
Devin, an AI code assistance tool that made the news a while back for controversially claiming to be the first AI software engineer, is now generally available. It's meant to handle small frontend bugs and edge cases, first-draft PRs, and targeted code refactors.
The developer of markview.nvim, an open-source Markdown previewer in Neovim, developed the entire plugin (25k lines) by coding on their phone, as they don't have a laptop.
wasm-vips is a library for browsers and Node.js, compiled into WebAssembly used for fast and memory-efficient image processing through parallel pipelines.
An interactive visualization of B+ trees.
This Hacker News thread discusses individuals earning $500+/month from side projects in 2024.