Issue #138 · November 25, 2019

Kore - An easy to use web platform for C and Python

“The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice”

Best 7 links of week #47, 2019

Kore - An easy to use web platform for C and Python

Kore - An easy to use web platform for C and Python

Kore is an easy to use web platform for writing scalable, concurrent APIs in C or Python. Its primary goals are security, scalability and allowing rapid development and deployment of such APIs. Because of this Kore is an ideal candidate for building robust, scalable and secure web things.

Articles

Getting Started with GraphQL

Since open-sourcing GraphQL specification in 2015, it gained a lot of popularity and is now used by many development teams, including giants like GitHub, Twitter or Airbnb. Why so? And what exactly is a GraphQL query? Let's take a look…

Multi-Value All The Wasm

Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a prerequisite for Wasm interface types.

Thoughts on Error Handling in Rust

An opinionated article on the current state of error handling and error handling crates in the Rust language and the Rust community. Absolutely interesting if you are currently learning Rust.

Book of the week

Elixir in Action

Elixir in Action

by Saša Jurić

Elixir in Action teaches you to apply the new Elixir programming language to practical problems associated with scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability. Elixir is a modern programming language that takes advantage of BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine, without the burden of Erlang's complex syntax and conventions. Elixir gives you Ruby-like elegance with the power to develop bulletproof distributed server systems that can handle massive numbers of simultaneous clients and run with almost no downtime.