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Podcast interview: Rust and C++

Sutter's Mill

Here’s the info… Rust [and] C++ with Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter In software engineering, C++ is often used in areas where low-level system access and high-performance are critical, such as operating systems, game engines, and embedded systems.

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OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Ease of use.

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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

First, a bit of operating-system design context. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. Ideally the CPU goes to sleep when Sleep(1) is called, in order to save power, so how does the operating system (OS) wake your thread if the CPU is sleeping?

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Can Language Models Replace Compilers?

O'Reilly

Specifically, could ChatGPT N (for large N) quit the game of generating code in a high-level language like Python, and produce executable machine code directly, like compilers do today? To people who programmed using circuit diagrams and switches, these early languages looked as radical as programming with generative AI looks today.

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Trip report: February 2025 ISO C++ standards meeting (Hagenberg, Austria)

Sutter's Mill

Relatedly, P1494R4 Partial program correctness by Davis Herring adds the idea of observable checkpoints that limit the ability of undefined behavior to perform time-travel optimizations. Note: This is the second time contracts has been voted into draft standard C++. It was briefly part of draft C++20, but was then removed for further work.

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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Machine Learning Service, the Amazon Elastic Filesystem and more

All Things Distributed

With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can use Amazon EFS to create file systems that are accessible to EC2 instances and that support standard operating system APIs and file system semantics. We will also launch Java as a programming language to be used in lambda in a few weeks. Amazon Lambda.

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5 types of tests that can be automated for your iOS

Testsigma

Swift is a modern and latest programming language for writing code for macOS, iOS, watchOS, etc. Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. It is observed that when the layout is changed from landscape to portrait during the game then the application crashes unexpectedly.

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