A tour of common concurrent hash map designs—global locks, sharding/lock striping, Java's ConcurrentHashMap, and Cliff Click's NonBlockingHashMap (NBHM)—through the lens of contention and performance.

Our beloved, irreplaceable daughter Annie should’ve been celebrating her 30th birthday this week. Instead, we’re left marking that milestone without her -- remembering all that she was and grieving all that should have been.

Annie died by suicide last year…

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How does Kafka scale for log processing?

CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:

In March 2026, I will be Mockito maintainer for 10 years (nearly a third of my whole life). Looking ahead, I decided that a decade milestone is a good moment to pass on maintainership to other folk...

Here is our future outlook for the software engineering job market in 2026 and what developers can expect next.

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.

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Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite…

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2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…

A secure low code honeypot framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization. - mariocandela/beelzebub

On ambition, pressure, and survival inside large organizations

Why I fear for the class of 2026

Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...

Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success…

Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success…

Why I fear for the class of 2026

Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...