The fourth and last in my series of blog posts on our new Aurora DSQL database is up! This time, we're looking at what happens during network partitions, and how we preserve consistency, availability, and durability. Check it out: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

I asked the electrician:
- How bad is the previous installation?
He replied:
- This isn’t that bad, things change over time, things get old. You measure a good implementation on how easy it is to replace. This one is easy to replace.

I love that way of thinking, it relates to programming as well.

The copilots will continue until morale improves

that's going to come up at the pearly gates, you know

NEW POST

Last month GitHub Copilot released a new multi-file editing capability: a powerful coding assistance feature which expands the scope of AI assistance to larger changes over many files. Birgitta Böckeler gave it a try to find out how useful it.

martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

The .NET native AOT compiler used to have an unsupported mode where it broke all reflection for size savings. I added the mode in 2019 when Hello World was 4 MB and with broken reflection only 1 MB. It was a good goalpost. In .NET 9 they're both ~1 MB: goalpost reached! github.com/dotnet/runti...

.NET 9 introduces the Task.WhenEach method.

It allows to join scheduled tasks and iterate through them as each of them is completed.

Previously, you had to repeatedly use Task.WaitAny on a set of tasks to pick off the next one that completes.

Deep dive on Native AOT! Want to understand how native compilation works on .NET? This is a great talk to get a better understanding.

#dotnet

youtu.be/Gmn-4mVSjq4?...