Because many floating point numbers can’t be represented exactly in a computer, most testing frameworks provide a way of checking that a floating point result is “close enough” to the expected value.
At Shopify, we mostly follow a trunk based development workflow, and every week more developers write more code, open more pull requests, and merge more commits to master. Occasionally, master merges can go wrong.
Sometimes people want to get a certificate for the hostname “localhost”, either for use in local development, or for distribution with a native application that needs to communicate with a web application.
Will Larson, Infrastructure Engineering Manager at Stripe explains how large system migration are an opportunity to reduce tech debt and paints a picture of infrastructure engineering at companies with massive scale.
Twitter today announced it was acquiring the “trust and safety as a service” startup Smyte to help it better address issues related to online abuse, harassment, spam, and security on its platform. But it also decided to immediately shut down access to Smyte’s API without warning