Introduction In this article, we are going to see what is the best way to use the amazing SQL NOWAIT feature that allows us to avoid blocking when acquiring a row-level lock. Since all the top major database support this functionality, Hibernate offers a NOWAIT option that allows you to render the proper database-specific syntax associated with this feature without…
10 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023
I rarely participate actively in the Swift Evolution process, but I frequently refer to evolution proposals for my work, often multiple times per week. The proposals aren’t always easy to read, but they’re the most comprehensive (and sometimes only) documentation we have for many Swift features. For years, my tool of choice for searching Swift Evolution proposals has been Karoy…
Until recently, the site-search on GitHub Docs was an in-memory solution. While it was a great starting point, we ultimately needed a solution that would scale with our growing needs, so we rewrote it in Elasticsearch. In this blog post, we share how the implementation works and how you can impress users with your site-search by doing the same. How…
8 Mar 2023
How to track and stream real-time vehicle location on a live-updating map using EON, JavaScript, and the Mapbox API.
We're challenging the common misconceptions on payment fraud and its impact
3.18.0 Release with Support for more Diagnostics, SQL/JSON, Oracle Associative Arrays, Multi dimensional Arrays, R2DBC 1.0
jOOQDiagnosticsListener improvements A lot of additional diagnostics have been added, including the automated detection of pattern replacements, helping you lint your SQL queries irrespective of whether you’re using jOOQ to write your SQL, or if you’re using it as a JDBC / R2DBC proxy for an existing application. A lot of these diagnostics are available … Continue reading 3.18.0 Release…
This is not my usual blog fodder, but there’s too much material here for even a Mastodon thread. The basic question is why assorted early microcomputers—and all of today’s computers—use 8-bit bytes. A lot of this material is based on personal experience; some of it is what I learned in a Computer Architecture course (and probably other courses) I took…
7 Mar 2023
Make your reports faster: A beginner’s guide to Tableau Optimisation In today’s world, given the pace at which data operates, we need a tool that can help us to generate reports faster and bring out insights within milliseconds. In order to solve this challenge, several companies have started utilising a few Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Tableau/Power BI/Superset/Looker/Qlikview, etc.…
PubNub offers two solutions for event-driven processing: Events & Actions and Functions, both of which are useful in different circumstances
TL;DR: If someone sees you enter your passcode on your phone and then steals your phone, they can lock you out of your Apple account, losing access to all your iCloud data, including photos. Treat your phone passcode as carefully as the secret it is. The problem I heard about "A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital…
6 Mar 2023
OpenAI’s platform is immensely powerful and since its launch it has over 300+ applications running already
Easily build a live support customer widget and a chat dashboard for a support agent using components in React.
A user’s clipboard is a “catch all” between the operating system and the apps employed on it. When you use a web browser, you can highlight text or right-click an image and select “Copy Image”. That made me think about how developers can detect what is in the clipboard. You can retrieve the contents of the user’s clipboard using the…
The February release got a little late… better later than even later, I guess! 😄
5 Mar 2023
Learn how to build truly engaging, reliable, and scalable real-time experiences.
3 Mar 2023
Learn more about the invoice in arrears meaning and uses.
2 Mar 2023
The March 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This release includes "back" and "cancel" support for the "Create Environment" command, isort no longer being shipped by default with the Python extension, improvements to the kernel picker experience in Jupyter, and the Python for VS Code team as guests on the Python…
Learn how we use GPT-based products as tools in a professional webdev setting. The post ChatGPT use case examples for programming appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
jOOQ 3.15 introduced the concept of an ad-hoc converter, a converter that is applied “ad-hoc” to a single query. It uses the same underlying mechanisms as any ordinary Converter that is attached to generated code for use in every query. An example of such an ad-hoc converter is this: While there are other ways to … Continue reading How to…
Choose the best payment method for your business based on the processing times.
📜 Intro # Recently, when I have tried to SSH to vCenter I have been getting the following:
1 Mar 2023
Introduction Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java. Articles The pick of this edition is this article that explains why an SQL Server query executed by an application can have a…
A simple guide to product pricing and how to price a product effectively.
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What is Amazon Pay and should you use it in your business?
A simple guide to the advantages and disadvantages of cost-plus pricing.
By: Kyler Stole TrueCar’s Model Search offers a search results page (SRP) for virtual vehicle models. Combinable filters help you narrow down your vehicle needs to specific models that have what you want. This page was actually preceded by Vehicle Rankings pages, which also filter down models but then rank the results using TrueCar’s proprietary scoring system. When we ported…
A simple guide to the advantages and disadvantages of penetration pricing.
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Process students’ school payments with an online system, discover the best one.
28 Feb 2023
Learn about real-time data dashboards and why they are essential for improving visibility into your application and operations.
To build anything, you need tools. To solve problems, you need solutions. From building a security infrastructure to modernizing our networks to accelerating digital transformation – everything requires a bridge to take us from here to there. We live in a world of resources, and we take advantage of the solutions that present themselves as […] The post Embrace SASE…
27 Feb 2023
Foundation overloads the pattern matching operator ~= to enable matching against error codes in catch clauses. catch clauses in Swift support pattern matching, using the same patterns you’d use in a case clause inside a switch or in an if case … statement. For example, to handle a file-not-found error you might write: import Foundation do { let fileURL =…
In this article I’ll derive a trick used in FHE called sample extraction. In brief, it allows one to partially convert a ciphertext in the Ring Learning With Errors (RLWE) scheme to the Learning With Errors (LWE) scheme. Here are some other articles I’ve written about other FHE building blocks, though they are not prerequisites for this article. Modulus Switching…
26 Feb 2023
An overview of the different platforms that text messaging apps can be built-on.
24 Feb 2023
One of the more frequent questions about jOOQ is how to write a derived table (or a CTE). The jOOQ manual shows a simple example of a derived table: In SQL: In jOOQ: And that’s pretty much it. The question usually arises from the fact that there’s a surprising lack of type safety when working … Continue reading How to…
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With style queries landing in stable Chrome, learn about how to use them in applications.
23 Feb 2023
Learn how to integrate chat services across platforms with real-time features, APIs, and security. Explore ticketing, read notifications, authentication, and more.
Before getting into the details of how my combinator-inspired source code transformation system works, I should say first, what is a general overview of the system? and second, why did I build it at all? In my experience, a typical … Continue reading →
Dokku is a self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that offers a compelling alternative to popular PaaS solutions like Heroku. With built-in support for Linux containers, deploying an application on Dokku is straightforward. However, there is a lesser-known deployment method that involves sending a build artifact, such as a JAR package for Java apps, directly to Dokku.
Introducing a new schedule for Blender releases in 2023 and beyond.
Introduction In this article, we are going to explore the YugabyteDB architecture and see how it manages to provide automatic sharding and failover without compromising data integrity. YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database, so its architecture is different than the ones employed by traditional relational database systems. Traditional relational database architecture Most relational database systems use a Single-Primary replication architecture,…
A conversation with engineers who help run Blinkit Jay Dihenkar is a Staff Engineer at Blinkit. He joined us in December 2020 and has helped different teams manage and streamline their build and release processes. He is currently working towards continuously improving the reliability, scalability, observability, developer productivity, and other such aspects of a software system critical for ensuring that…
22 Feb 2023
HIPAA Identifiers consist of 18 types of protected health information (PHI) that can be used to identify, contact, or locate an individual patient.
Pusher announced they are retiring their chat product, Pusher Chatkit. Here's how to easily migrate your chat application to PubNub Chat
If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you probably saw last week's big Safari 16.4 reveal. There's much to cheer, but we need to talk about why this mega-release is happening now, and what it means for the future. Contents WebKit's Roaring Twenties Good Things Come In Sixes What Changed? Headcount Is Destiny Early Innings But first,…
A closer look at storage routing in Husky, Datadog’s third-generation event storage system.
21 Feb 2023
We're excited to announce the release of our new Events & Actions feature which enables our customers to capture critical real-time data.
Former Nordigen executives to hold leadership roles at GoCardless
I have just returned from the 2023 edition of PHPUK and, as always, found it a valuable conference to catch up with the PHP community and find out what’s happening in the ecosystem. This year, I was accepted to speak on the differences between RPC, REST and GraphQL APIs and was surprised and gratified that the room was at full…
Security resilience is all about reducing risk and thriving in uncertainty. The Cisco Security Outcome Report 2nd edition, showed that cybersecurity success was linked to five main security team behaviors, two of which are ‘Be proactive about technology refreshes’ and ‘Use well-integrated technologies’. Plus, as more organizations embrace hybrid work and continue to add SaaS […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
20 Feb 2023
Learn everything you need to know about bank payments.
See how RisingStack and Semmelweis University created an image recognition system using deep convolutional neural networks and a user-friendly interface for healthcare workers fighting against breast cancer. The post Mammogram Analysis with AI and User-Friendly Interfaces appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
We all love beautifully styled form controls but, due to the differences between operating system displays, styling them can be painful. Due to that pain, we’ve created scores of libraries to mock these controls. Unfortunately that sometimes comes at the cost of accessibility, performance, etc. One control that has traditionally been tough to style is the input[type=file] element. Said input…