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When Scaling Is Not An Option: A Simple Asynchronous Pattern

We live in a world of APIs, and while they are practical you may face a situation where the number of requests increases rapidly and your…Continue reading on Better Programming »

DevOps, the Software “Jack”-Pot

From experts to Jack(y) of all trades, masters of noneContinue reading on Better Programming »

Nvidia VXGI + Unity: Voxel-based Rendering Demo Using Direct3D 12 Graphics Backend.

Nvidia VXGI + Unity: Voxel-based Rendering Demo Using Direct3D 12 Graphics BackendImage by authorVoxel-based global illumination is a set of techniques that exploits the voxel representation of the scene. Voxels can contain different metrics: for example, the amount of light reflected off the geometry they represent.When voxels are stored in mipmap-like data

The Overflow #179: Brag about your code

Welcome to ISSUE #179 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: chatting about OWASP ZAP, computing with rolling stones, and jQuery lives. From the blog Keep ‘em separated: Get better maintainability in web projects using

Instant classic

“Instant classic” is, of course, an oxymoron. A classic is something that has passed the test of time, and by definition that cannot happen instantly. But how long should the test of time last? In his book Love What Lasts, Joshua Gibbs argues that 100 years after the death of

How the creator of Angular is dehydrating the web (Ep. 574)

Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and longtime Googler, tells Ben about building the future of web applications in his new role as CTO of Builder.io.  Episode notes: Angular is an open-source web framework used by millions of developers. Explore the Angular community.  Miško is currently CTO at Builder, an API-driven,

Occupancy problem distribution

Suppose you have a random number generator that returns numbers between 1 and N. The birthday problem asks how many random numbers would you have to output before there’s a 50-50 chance that you’ll repeat a number. The coupon collector problem asks how many numbers you expect to generate before

Accelerating the Cloud: Transitioning to Cloud Native

In this third article in our Accelerating the Cloud series, we explore a checklist of items to consider before redeploying applications. Continue reading Accelerating the Cloud: Transitioning to Cloud Native on SitePoint.