YouTube Music doesn't have a true "block" button, so this open-source Chrome extension adds one to auto-skip over blocked songs and artists.

David Schwartz proposed reserved transaction slots to stop bots front-running XRP Ledger trades. Here's how the fix works and ...

CIREBON, Indonesia, June 9 (Reuters) - Under a hazy morning sky, Indonesian rice farmer Teguh Basuki is racing to get ahead of his usual planting schedule in West Java as he battles the threat of a ...

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A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect.

A company asked me to do an independent performance review of their Spring Boot application. The problem: response times randomly spiking from 50ms to 5 seconds. No errors. No CPU spikes. Database ...

In production, you fix this by: • slowing the producer when the queue crosses a threshold • scaling consumers • batching database writes • using durable queues like Kafka, SQS, or RabbitMQ • adding ...

Redisson is the Java Client and Real-Time Data Platform for Valkey and Redis. Redisson greatly extends the capabilities of Valkey and Redis by providing additional services and data structures not ...

Real-world industrial runtimes for parallel processing heavily rely on work-stealing queues for scalability, and such queues can become bottlenecks to their performance. We present Block-based Work ...

In this paper, we propose an evaluation methodology for synthetic data that avoids assumptions about the representativeness of proxy tasks, instead measuring the likelihood that published conclusions ...