The Loophole Turning Stablecoins Into a Trillion-Dollar Fight

Crypto advocates see things differently. They claim stablecoin rewards create healthy market pressure and could drive big banks to provide more competitive interest rates in an effort to keep customer deposits. “To call this a trillion-dollar fight would be an understatement: This is highly fraught territory that banks have jealously guarded,” says former Republican representative…

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Swift – Reflection with the Mirror API

Reflection allows applications to inspect, analyze, and modify their structure and behavior at runtime. With reflection, we have the ability to discover information about types at runtime. We can think of reflection as a way for a program to look at and inspect itself.Reflection in Swift is implemented using the Mirror API. This API enables…

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When Small Method Choices Cascade Into Big Performance Wins

Three months ago, I spent an embarrassing amount of time optimizing a complex Redis caching layer – tweaking expiration strategies, adding compression, even experimenting with different serialization formats. The performance improvements were modest at best. Then, almost accidentally, I discovered that a single line of string processing code was consuming 40% of our CPU cycles….

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