A strong earthquake has struck northern Japan. The quake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture at 11:15 p.m. on Monday. Its focus was 50 kilometers deep, and the magnitude is estimated at 7.6. Strong tremors were felt across … Read more
Eventual consistency makes your life harder. When I started at AWS in 2008, we ran the EC2 control plane on a tree of MySQL databases: a primary to handle writes, a secondary to take over from the primary, a handful … Read more
Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea behind CRDTs Blog Talks Contact 9/8/2025 CRDTs. Data structures that can be replicated across multiple nodes, edited independently, merged back together, and it all just works. But collaborative document editing and multiplayer TODO … Read more
An official report into the collapse of a 10-year-old mass-timber bridge in Norway in August 2022 has criticised the structure’s design and construction. Two drivers had to be rescued after the Tretten Bridge, over the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the Øyer … Read more
This is article expands on the topic of gradual set-theoretic typing discussed during my keynote at ElixirConf US 2023. There is an on-going effort to research and develop a type system for Elixir, lead by Giuseppe Castagna, CNRS Senior Researcher, … Read more
All animal care and experimental protocols complied with local and federal laws and guidelines and were approved by the appropriate governing body in Berlin, Germany, the Landesamt fur Gesundheit und Soziales (LaGeSo G-0224/20). Experimental breeding and design The all-female Amazon … Read more
There’s a great joke in Futurama, the cartoon comedy show, about a horror movie for robots. In the movie, a planet of robots is terrorized by a giant “non-metallic being” (a monsterified human). The human is finally defeated by a … Read more
A small group of professional engineers are using the licensing process to stifle calls for reform and retaliate against Strong Towns for its advocacy. The Strong Towns organization advocates for reforming the way we build our cities, especially the approach … Read more
Dr Mitesh Patel, from Imperial College London, who was involved in the work at the LHC, said: “The race is really on now to try and get one of these experiments to really get the proof that this really is … Read more