A few days ago I wrote a fuzzer for our XPath engine. A fuzzer is essentially a tool for finding bugs in code automatically by generating random inputs for a program and seeing whether it crashes on those inputs. Take a look at the following definition from Wikipedia: Fuzzing or fuzz testing is an automated […]
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A poorly performing application is pretty much always something which upsets users. And they should be; why would they need to wait for an application to finish processing? Writing high performances software is hard: it takes time, skill, discipline, and careful craftsmanship. Whether you’re writing a database application or a microservice that implements some algorithm,
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We’d like to give you a heads up about upcoming changes to Fonto. These changes specifically concern you as a developer, and how you work with Fonto’s SDK. They do not directly affect Fonto’s end users. For the upcoming 7.7 release of Fonto we plan to modernise Fonto’s build tools, which are used for running
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