It turns out LRU has two shortcomings when used as a page replacement algorithm. First, an exact LRU implementation is too costly in this context. Second, the memory manager needs to account for frequency as well, so that a large file read doesn’t evict the entire cache. Therefore, Linux uses a more sophisticated algorithm than …
When we opened up Sourcegraph to the public a few months ago, it was a rich AngularJS app. The server delivered the initial HTML page and hosted JSON endpoints. AngularJS did everything else. But rich client-side JavaScript frameworks aren’t a good fit for every site, especially content sites like Sourcegraph, as we soon learned. Here …
Thanks to Roseanne Smith on Facebook, I came across Star Trek Continues, a fan-produced ‘continuation’ of the original series that seems to achieve what many would have considered impossible: a faithful recreation of The Original Series that continues, seamlessly, where no man has gone before. via Star Trek Continues is the Truest Trek Yet.
Godot Engine has been developed as an in-house engine with a track-record of more than a decade of published games. It took a long time but it’s finally ready for everyone. Godot brings to the table a large array of features and a different approach to making games, which combined allow single developers and teams …
The complete mobile app platform Parse lets you focus on creating unique & engaging apps on any platform. We take care of the rest. via Parse.
Bob Nystrom attempts to demonstrate that Dart is not boring, covering laziness, higher-order functions, asynchronicity, abstractions and others. via Dart for the Language Enthusiast.
At VentureBeat’s DevBeat conference next week, we’re doing things a little differently. You won’t be invited to speak on stage if you can’t code, and we’re setting up practical workshops so you’ll actually learn something and not just be lectured to. via 10 best practices from top coders at Google, Pinterest & more | VentureBeat | …
The software takes guesses at what users want to do with the sample data set, sort of like the auto-complete feature in Google’s search bar. Users can preview the results of the available actions Trifacta suggests. Once users select the changes to be made, they’re added to a sort of to-do list for the entire …
Tools that can help data scientists save lots of time, such as Trifacta, which simplifies the process of getting a big heap of data ready for analysis, can also be appealing. via What big-data VCs are sick of — and what they really want | VentureBeat | Big Data | by Jordan Novet.
At least part of the database market is safe “[T]here’s really no answer in the Hadoop space today for the kind OLTP and very advanced workloads that run on the traditional larger databases,” Olson acknowledged, adding, “I don’t think that any of those vendors looks at the platform, Hadoop, or even the more-capable enterprise data …