What Is Proof-of-Activity? How This Blockchain Consensus Works

Proof-of-activity is a blockchain consensus that combines proof-of-work and proof-of-stake to enhance security and ...
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Pinterest’s CDC-Powered Ingestion Slashes Database Latency from 24 Hours to 15 Minutes

Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+ hours to 15 minutes, processes ...
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Achieve Optimal Efficiency for Your Developer Experience Teams

Fabien Deshayes discusses the strategies behind Monzo’s Developer Velocity squad. He explains the "Platform as a Product" mindset, emphasizing the need for engineers with product acumen and tenure. He ...

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is free to use right now — here are 5 things you should try first

If you write code at all, this is where Sonnet 4.6 earns its reputation. Scratch that, even if you don't write code, this is ...

Multiple mental health apps riddled with high severity security flaws — data of millions put at risk, so be on your guard

Security researchers Oversecured recently analyzed 10 mental health mobile apps in the Android ecosystem, cumulatively ...