It’s 2020. You’re the most senior person on your team, in charge of code quality and architecture. You’ve set up good engineering practices, you thoroughly review PRs from people who are less experienced than you and work hard to maintain … Read more
Here’s how Misago works currently: You request https://misago-project.org. Django view gathers data to render list of threads. Django view renders template that contains almost complete HTML with list of threads, but also includes a JSON with same data used to … Read more
May 13th, 2026 | 14 minute read Modern cars are computers on wheels – they have more sensors than you can count and are constantly phoning home with telemetry data like your location, speed, fuel levels, sudden accelerations/decelerations, video footage, … Read more
Most storage engines pay fsync somewhere on the durable write path. We built a narrowly scoped single-node KV storage engine that does not call fsync for PUT or DELETE. The design relies on fixed-size preallocated files, pre-zeroed extents, O_DIRECT writes, … Read more
China, on the other hand, frequently abandons upper stages in orbit. China launched 21 of the 26 hazardous new rocket bodies over the last 21 months, each averaging more than 4 metric tons (8,800 pounds). Two more came from US … Read more
September 12, 2025 First released with Zstandard 1.3.2 in 2017, the –long range match finder increases the compressor’s search window to at least 128MiB, improving deduplication inside large files. This optional feature had substantial performance overheads at launch, but various … Read more
As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available, and updated, for the entire life of the release. If package foo is included in the stable release—currently Debian 13 (“trixie”)—a user … Read more
You know the nagging feeling that your product, project, or company has become more complicated than it needs to be? You can solve many problems and get better results by doing something unthinkable to many: removing parts that once seemed … Read more
Abstract:We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a … Read more
At Google Cloud, we work to support a thriving cloud ecosystem that is open, secure, and interoperable. When customers’ business needs evolve, the cloud should be flexible enough to accommodate those changes. Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to … Read more