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Legacy. The one word engineers cringe when they hear. Nobody wants to work with legacy code or legacy systems. And yet someone has to. Can we do something about it?

What, why and how

Algorithms and data structures were taught at the university, they were complex and difficult to understand, and I always asked why I…

Build workflows and processes with Finite State Machines to reduce code complexity

Modern CPUs and GPUs can all process a lot of data in parallel so what exactly makes them different? This question is getting more relevant as you we see Arm processor add Scalable Vector Extensions…

Software architecture is often a misunderstood idea. Unlike traditional architecture, where the design is separated from construction, in software how something is built influences what is built, and vice versa. Software architecture is about decisions, not structure. Architecting is a skill, and architect should not be a role.

The “ORM vs. SQL” holy war has raged for decades. EdgeDB provides a third option.

Firecracker is the technology which powers Serverless, but it can be also be repurposed to run end-to-end tests quickly and cheaply.

Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Cloud. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?

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Functional design is a framework for using functional programming to solve every day problems, without jargon or fancy techniques

By Alex Hutter, Falguni Jhaveri and Senthil Sayeebaba

Distributed Environments: Why are They So Challenging to DevOps Engineers?

Let’s examine the risks and overhead of zero-trust security, along with some solutions for developer workstations that are easy to adopt.

We don’t store data in warehouses; we operate data factories without quality controls.

OpenID Connect Client Initiated Backchannel Authentication Flow is an authentication flow like OpenID Connect. However, unlike OpenID Connect, there is direct Relying Party to OpenID Provider communication without redirects through the user's browser. This specification has the concept of a Consumption Device (on which the user interacts with the Relying Party) and an Authentication Device (on which the user authenticates with the OpenID Provider and grants consent). This specification allows a Relying Party that has an identifier for a user to obtain tokens from the OpenID Provider. The user starts the flow with the Relying Party at the Consumption Device, but authenticates and grants consent on the Authentication Device.

PostgreSQL has been an improvement on its predecessors and successors, while ClickHouse enables qualitatively different approaches to analytics.

A new generation of note-taking tools helps us quickly organize thoughts as knowledge graphs

Designing flexible and semantically correct design systems with polymorphic components

Connectivity requirements add lots of friction to large-scale IoT deployments. LoRaWAN, and the Helium network, just might be a good, universal solution.

Even though tech giants like Google, Twitter, and Spotify have been using internal platforms since way back, IDP is a relatively new concept among young tech stakeholders and startups. This article gives an elaborate view of what an internal developer platform is about, the benefits, and how it impacts your DevOps team.

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is an essential step for rapidly scaling companies to keep their developers working productively and happily. In this roundtable discussion we speak with Jason Warner, the current CTO of GitHub and previous VP of Engineering for Heroku about how IDPs help teams of that scale build efficiently.

Should your organization implement an internal developer platform? Learn the benefits and challenges of an IDP, and how to keep it running smoothly.

Similar to the eight fallacies of distributed computing, there are eight fallacies of your internal developer platform.

There are many tools to help manage microservices. Today, I look at some options to highlight the similarities, differences, and when or why to use one.