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We've been working hard at Darklang for the past year, but haven't been very vocal about what we've been up to. Here’s the “Darklang” that’s been live for years: Darklang – the live version, which we'
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The origins of big data infrastructure Many of today's most highly adopted open source “big data” infrastructure projects – like Cassandra, Kafka, Hadoop, etc. – follow a common story. A large company
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Enlarge Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for the first time since January 2015, concluding that modern broadband se
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