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Scaling to Infinity: Innovating the Worker Queue

By Paragon 
When building applications, it's common to be coordinating frontends, databases, worker queues, and APIs. Traditionally, queues and APIs are kept separate; queues handle long-running or CPU intensive tasks and APIs serve quick responses to keep applications snappy.

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A Programmer's Guide to Regex or Regular Expressions

By Tasnuva Zaman 
Everybody talks about regular expression, but everyone hates regular expression yet ends up using regular expression!

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Open Source Series: Issues and PRs

By JeB 
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since the last part but we made it! For those of you who haven’t read the previous parts or are wondering what I planned for the next parts:

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On The (Failed) Digitization of Our Social Lives

By Owen Auch 
If you told me two months ago that today would be the first day of quarantine that I would digitally get pen to paper, two-months-ago-me would have been outraged at quarantine-me. With no competition for my attention, I assumed that every creative pursuit that I’d put off for lack of time would come bursting out of me in a personal Renaissance like Bob Dylan producing The Basement Tapes. If Shakespeare wrote King Lear during plague quarantine, surely I could do something during my quarantine.

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Proof of Work (PoW) vs. Proof of Stake (PoS): Sharding Edition

By Vinod Manoharan 
The blockchain scalability problem is currently the main limitation for the mass adoption of blockchain technology. In the standard permissionless p2p blockchain design introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto, every node has to process all the data in the network.

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Sounding The Death Knell for Cash Money: How Far Is It?

By Andrew Zola 
Crypto founders share their views on whether physical currency will disappear altogether

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Interview with Chatroulette Founder Andrey Ternovskiy

By Georgia 
Topics Discussed: the “dick problem” // virtual reality for cats // the stupidity of going to mars // mathematical machines of evil // why being a god would be boring // creating your own country in the ocean

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3 Ways To Make Sure Your Startup Isn’t Successful

By Mark Flickinger 
Startups that focus on the wrong priorities are likely to fail.

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6 Steps to Validate JTBD with Surveys

By Scott Middleton 
You want to get quantitative validation of the problem your new product idea is solving as soon as possible. This is why early surveys to validate Jobs-to-be-Done with your customers are essential.

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Bitcoin - The 4 Year Cycle

By Rekt Capital 
Bitcoin’s price moves in cycles.

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☢️ Dissecting DEFENSOR - An Android Malware That Affects Your Banking Apps

By Ax 
Android malware apps are nothing new, but this one is of particular interest in how it implements no such functionality that can be readily detected by security products. The apps named DEFENSOR ID and Defensor Digital rely mainly on Android's Accessibility Service to conduct malicious activities, and go undetected.

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Laziness Chapter I: Meta-Programming

By Maximiliano Contieri 
Meta-programming is magic. That is the main reason why we should not use it. There are many dire consequences on the horizon.

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10 Free Courses to learn Docker and DevOps for Programmers and Software Developers

By Javin Paul 
As software development (both frontend and backend) is moving towards automation, good knowledge and experience about the Docker could be very valuable for your career.

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Untangling Two of Today's Most Unnecessary Startup Fundraising Myths

By Rizwan Virk 
If you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing.  Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong. 

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Bubble Sort Algorithm: How to Develop Your Computational Thinking

By Kitpao 
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by an algorithm problem and don't know where to start?

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