In Taiwan, Checking Your Trash Before You Check Out

The island nation has reinvented itself as a model for sustainable tourism, asking visitors to adapt to strict recycling ...

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

The Microsoft-led TypeScript 7.0 features an order-of-magnitude speed boost, a victory not only for TypeScript itself but ...
IEEE

Evaluating Garbage Collection Performance Across Managed Language Runtimes

Abstract: Modern managed language runtimes (e.g., Java, Go and C#) rely on garbage collection (GC) mechanisms to automatically allocate and reclaim in-memory objects. The efficiency of GC ...
Hacker

Observability on Heroku: How to Monitor Apps on a Managed Infrastructure

I run Dev Spotlight - we write tech content for tech companies. Email at michael@devspotlight.com. Cloud platforms like Heroku make it easier than ever to host applications: just upload your code, and ...
IEEE

A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection

Abstract: A large number of workloads are written in garbage-collected languages. These applications spend up to 10-35% of their CPU cycles on GC, and these numbers increase further for pause-free ...