The standard way to do threading in C under Linux is to use Pthreads. This extract is from my  book on C in an IoT context.

Data is vulnerable to security breaches with dire consequences in the case of unauthorized access. With ABAC you can establish fine-grained access policies that govern who can access what, when, and under what conditions.

Today Google is celebrating its 25th Birthday. Sundar Pichai tweeted "Thanks to everyone who uses our products and challenges us to keep innovating and to all Googlers!" And there's a Google Doodle depicting the changes to the Google Logo over a quarter century.

As part of Google's 25 year celebration, a blog post lists "Our 10 biggest AI moments...". It is true that Google has pushed AI to get us where we are today, but the reality is more nuanced than just ten greatest hits.

pg_vector is an extension for PostgreSQL that renders it a viable alternative to specialized vector stores used in LLMs. We show you how to use it and report on the latest, faster incarnation, written in Rust, pgvecto.rs.

Apache Pinot 1.0 has been released. The real-time distributed OLAP datastore has been purpose-built for low-latency, high-throughput analytics.

Redocly is an open source tool written in Typescript that
assists in managing your APIs effectively. What can it do?

GitHub has updated its products for importing repositories and CI pipelines. GitHub Enterprise Importer can now be used to import from Bitbucket, and GitHub Actions Importer can now be used for Atlassian's CI/CD products.

Remember the year 2K catastrophe? Well no, neither do I, cos we had more or less fixed the problem by the time the dreaded date arrived. Soon after people were happy to point out that we had a whole 38 years to the next problem. But how long is it now?

I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that a Perl course has been published on FreeCodeCamp. Amongst the myriad of Javascript and Python courses, there it is, a lone star.

Unicode 15.1 has been released, hot on the heels of Unicode 15. The latest standard adds two new scripts and 4,500 new characters, along with 20 new emojis and extended support for hieroglyphs.

Recently AWS Lamda switched from Python runtime 3.10 to 3.11, promising a lot of improvement. In which parts?

Next.js has been updated with faster server startups, lower memory use and optimized packet imports.

Author: Eric Matthes
Publisher: No Starch Press
Pages: 552
ISBN: 978-1718502703
Audience: People wanting to learn Python
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Audience: Not the complete beginner
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Alex Armstrong
To reach a third edition this book must be doing something right...

Subtitled "Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python", in this book Michael Hartl teaches the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need to be professionally productive. Hartl introduces Python both as a general-purpose language and as a specialist tool for web development and data science, presenting focused examples and exercises that help you internalize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don't care about.

In this book, subtitled "Effective strategies for distributed cloud-native applications and data-driven modernization", Otàvio Santana and Karina Varela present well-established patterns and standards that can be used in Java solutions, with insights into the pros and cons of trending technologies and frameworks used in cloud-native microservices. The book confronts the challenges of cloud adoption head-on, particularly those tied to the growing need for cost reduction through stack modernization.

In this book Mike McGrath demonstrates VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macro programming in a clear and concise manner. This 4th edition is updated for Microsoft 365.