IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.2 Is Out!
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The CALM Theorem: When Distributed Consistency Doesn’t Need Coordination
The theory behind why some distributed computations are safely coordination-free, and how to spot which ones are. Every distributed systems engineer eventually runs into the same wall. You want your system to be fast,…
Presentation: Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI
Ricardo Ferreira discusses moving beyond simple prompt engineering to build production-grade AI applications. He shares practical architectural strategies for integrating long-term and short-term memory using Redis,…
MongoDB Search Server, improved!
In this article, we’re going to revisit and improve the MongoDB Search Server originally described in the article How to Build a Search Service in Java with MongoDB. First, let’s remind ourselves why an intermediate…
Swift’s Ownership And Noncopyable Types
For nearly a decade, Swift’s relationship to memory looked settled. Classes were reference-counted automatically, structs and enums were copied freely, and the whole system ran quietly in the background without asking…