I created my own Git command to brew my morning coffee.

Book notes on "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts" by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage and Zhamak Dehghani

Regrets? Jack Dorsey has a few

Audian is a VoIP company that provides affordable, reliable, scalable hosted voice solutions for small to medium and large sized businesses.

In short, all things being equal, it’s better to run applications at the edge instead of in a centralized cloud or data center environment.

Devs must rethink workload management and nudge cloud providers to improve SLAs on spot instances, said tech ethicist Anne Currie, at Seacon 2022 in London. #sustainability #cloudnative #AWS #GoogleCloud

APIs are the building blocks of application and software development in 2022, but what are the keys to success?

Bad technology choices and vendor lock-in are two distinct risks that anybody adopting technology needs to learn about, but they are not the same thing.

This Rust driver started as a humble hackathon project, but that gave us an idea: Why not unify all our drivers to use Rust underneath?

Our team has had an insanely productive past three months. We've consistently cruised past goals, exceeded expectations, delivered new functionality, and had fun doing so. How did we do it? How can we keep the momentum going? Here's what it comes down to: teams perform well when successes are shared and failures are owned.

This is an exerpt from Infrastructure Engineer’s section on efficiency. Before diving into the mechanics of managing infrastructure costs, the first question to answer is whether it’s a valuable use of organizational time to make your current infrastructure spend more efficient. How you think about this will vary a bit depending on whether your company is early-stage, prioritizing growth or profitability. Early-Stage Generally speaking, very early-stage companies shouldn’t spend much time thinking about infrastructure costs.

Docker founder launches Dagger, a new DevOps startup that has now raised $30 million.

Preventing dangerous patch delays with rebootless updates. Trusted by Dell, Zoom and 1,500+ enterprise. Support all major Linux Distributions.

When I estimate software projects at work, I conform to the way we do it at work. But I can do software estimates the way I want to for my own projects, so I...

When building new projects, it’s usually annoying to repeatedly set up stuff like web servers, databases, etc. It’s often expensive or tedious to set up and manage. That’s where open-source PAASs came in. They are free and often have an easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager.

An overview of the similarities and differences between Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Engineering, including from a career perspective.

The question of ORM performance is more nuanced than simply “they generate slow queries”. We present a new benchmark for comparing ORM performance on realistic queries.

This is a note on, the Turing Award laureate, Ted Codd's revolutionary paper — A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. In this post, I will review the paper and add my comments with a perspective from modern distributed databases. Tight couplingHow users used to interact with databases

Real world example where uniform syntax enables unthinkable solution

The problem is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to understand what solutions are required for a given problem and even harder to task…

MikroTik is a Latvian company which was founded in 1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems. MikroTik now provides hardware and software for Internet connectivity in most of the countries around the world.

Docker images should be efficient and secure. In this article, we’ll explore a popular Dockerfile linter called Hadolint and how to integrate it into your development workflow.

These different approaches to allowing modification of immutable systems have different strengths, but allow the user to select what is appropriate for them. A look at Bottlerocket, Talos Linux and Flatcar

It took a few moments to realize what was striking about the opening video for Nvidia’s GTC conference: the complete absence of humans. That the video ended with Jensen Huang, the founder and…

The eight critical attributes of API strategy are interdependent and require collaboration between the Platform Ops, SecOps, NetOps and DevOps teams.

How a few core changes dramatically increased our app’s performance.

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