Mapping is a hugely complex task to take on. Even if you moved as much of the data-management as you... more

The terminal might be the most used development tool in history. So it's a little odd that it hasn't changed... more

A language's AST—it's abstract syntax tree—is nearly always a hidden implementation detail. It's not treated as part of the language,... more

DuckDB's become a favourite data-handling tool of mine, simply because it does so many small things well. It can read... more

RRWeb is based on a simple idea: If you capture all the DOM events in a browser session, and when... more

The ZigLang team have put an astonishing amount of effort into making Zig work an effective tool for compiling C... more

Back in 2012, José Valim started building Elixir to as a way to have his ideal programming language running on... more

There's huge pressure on Python at the moment to get faster, ideally without changing at all. One increasingly–popular way of... more

Most message systems have an opinion on the right way to do inter-systems communication. Whether it's actors, queues, message logs... more

Smalltalk is one of those programming languages that's lived out of the mainstream, but often referenced as an influence and... more

This week we take a close look at the language Inko from two perspectives: The language design features that make... more

I've often wondered how you build a text editor. Like many software projects, it's a simple idea at the core... more

This week on Developer Voices we're talking to Ryan Worl, whose career in big data engineering has taken him from... more

PostgreSQL is an incredible general-purpose database, but it can't do everything. Every design decision is a tradeoff, and inevitably some... more

The actor model is a popular approach to building scalable software systems. And isn't hard to understand when you're just... more

Bytewax is a curious stream processing tool that blends a Python surface with a Rust core to produce something that's... more

Mojo is the latest language from the creator of Swift and LLVM. It's an attempt to take some of the... more

Every database has to juggle the need to process new data and to query old data. That task falls to... more

Rust changed the discussion around memory management - this week's guest hopes to push that discussion even further. This week we're... more

The "big data infrastructure" world is dominated by Java, but the data-analysis world is dominated by Python. So if you... more