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== February 25th, 2019 ==
* '''Fearless Security (part 2)''' -- Diane Hosfelt published the second in her three part “Fearless Security Hacks [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/fearless-security-thread-safety/ blog series] on Hacks, this time on thread safety -- highlighting ways to design programs and use languages to make it easier to write concurrent code. Not totally surprisingly, this leads to a great discussion of how Rust manages concurrency, making fearless security a lot more accessible to programmers. You can also read part one, and should stay tuned for part 3 to come...
* '''Inside AV1''' -- Tim Terryberry’s AV1 talk at Linux Conference Australia was picked up by “The Broadcast Knowledge” a website dedicated to showcasing freely available information on the broadcast industry. As a result a much wider audience watched the video, and now know more about AV1 and how it works. [https://thebroadcastknowledge.com/2019/02/11/video-the-av1-video-codec/ Check it out] if you’re curious about AV1 and high-quality royalty-free video on the web.
* '''Ruby to Rust''' -- Deliveroo, a British online food delivery company, recently rearchitected the Dispatcher service that predicts and schedules the routes of all their drivers, transitioning it from Ruby to Rust. They’ve published a detailed [https://deliveroo.engineering/2019/02/14/moving-from-ruby-to-rust.html blog post] about the challenges that led them to rewrite Dispatcher, why they chose Rust, how they interconnected Rust with the rest of their Ruby services and did the Rust build out incrementally, and the 17x performance improvement they’ve seen in the core computational parts of Dispatcher as a result.
== February 11th, 2019 ==
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