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2017-07-18
Survey of Rounding Implementations in GoWhat happens when a rounding floating point numbers is left out of the standard library, due to being trivial for application developers to implement themselves? Unsurprisingly, you get a ton of buggy implementations.
Postgres Job Queues & Failure By MVCC> How Postgres' concurrency model coupled with long-lived transactions can degrade the performance of indexes on hot tables in your database.