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How Blockchains Get Attacked and How Bitcoin Got Hacked, Part I
August 28, 2018 by • “Bitcoin” Hare
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Security is often cited as the foremost advantage of choosing blockchain technology over centralized systems.
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There are recorded cases of hackers either compromising or taking advantage of loopholes in self- executing contracts on the blockchain
Filed under: On.SecurityBest Practices
Read moreToo Much Unit Testing Is Detrimental for Code Quality?
August 3, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Code quality tends to be Quite Bad(tm) when there is no unit testing at all, reaching maximum when there are 0 to 10% of the unit testing methods, and degrading afterwards
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It is quite easy to get past the optimum amount of unit testing for your project. And whenever your unit testing starts to affect your code in a negative way – you should stop
Filed under: On.DevelopmentDevelopment Processes
Read moreCAS (Re)Actor for Non-Blocking Multithreaded Primitives
July 23, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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in 2017, I started to feel that the Dark Ages of mutex-based thread sync were over
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Another issue which almost universally rears its ugly head when speaking about not-so-trivial uses of CAS is the so-called ABA problem.
Filed under: On.System Architecture(Re)ActorsOn.ProgrammingTips and Tricks
Read moreTesting Memory Allocators: ptmalloc2 vs tcmalloc vs hoard vs jemalloc While Trying to Simulate Real-World Loads
July 4, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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if you DO want to get performance from changing mallocs, make sure to test them with your own app
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in our humble opinion, overall winner so far (by a nose) is jemalloc.
Filed under: On.ProgrammingOptimizations
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