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Nov 15, 2023
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Building Paved Paths: The Journey to Platform Engineering

Amanda Silver
Amanda Silver

Over the past year, AI has taken the world by storm. Our industry is innovating at an unprecedented rate, bringing incredible products to market that make life and work easier and more efficient for real people across a wide range of sectors and job functions. Like previous industry shifts—the introduction of the PC, internet, and search—it’s a pre...

Nov 2, 2023
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Copy-on-Write in Win32 API Early Access

Erik Mavrinac
Erik Mavrinac

(Updated Apr 4 and 26, 2024 with some release news. Also see the next post) On October 25, 2023, the Windows filesystem team released an early preview of copy-on-write (CoW) linking in the Windows 11 Insider Canary channel. This builds automatic CoW linking into the Win32 APIs when using Dev Drive or ReFS. If released next year, this will elimina...