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LMDB: A High-Performance, Memory-Mapped Btree Database Library with ACID Transactions

LMDB (Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager) is a Btree-based database management library modeled on the BerkeleyDB API but simplified. I

U.S. labor force participation drops to 50-year low as job seekers give up searching

The article reports on a troubling decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate, which fell to its lowest level in 50 years outside of

JEP 539: Preview Feature Introduces Strict Field Initialization in the JVM to Eliminate Default Value Observations

JEP 539 introduces strictly-initialized fields in the Java Virtual Machine as a preview feature. These fields must be initialized before bei

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Why Workflow State Should Live in the Same Database as Your Application Data

The article argues that workflow systems should not just use Postgres as a backend, but should actually co-locate workflow state inside the