Technology Commentary

It is not recommended to use eBPF without a proper service provider and third-party tool set.

Continuous compliance through automation is key to stopping compliance and security errors before they happen, not just when you discover them.

The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic—and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from...

I really, really don’t want an online integrated development environment. Why local IDEs still reign supreme in a cloud-crazy world.

A conversation with Imran Chaudhri, a former Apple designer and co-founder of Humane about the future of personal computing in the age of artificial intelligence.

If you think of Humane’s AI Pin as just another device, it is easy to shrug your shoulders. However, when you place it in the context of the development of computing, you can see we are at the star…

Because of the uniquely strong protection of individual liberties enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and a key legal precedent established by the courts, the United States is the only place I’m aware of in which Linux would remain freely accessible.

The way how software companies work has changed. A new need has emerged — the need for T-shaped Developers.

Geneva, Switzerland — Unicode revolutionized the written word, but it has one downside: It favors Roman languages by making the byte…

The tools that enable context driven decisions.

Adopting a self-service approach for access to cloud resources and Kubernetes clusters can significantly accelerate the cloud adoption journey.

Book notes on "Code that fits in your head" by Mark Seemann

It is not my intention with NULL BITMAP to dwell forever on somewhat obscure, unintuitive SQL-isms, but...with that said, I know a lot of you out there are...

Adopting existing tools that work, applying them to the business problems at hand, and quickly iterating in the business domain rather than endlessly swirling in the vortex of technobabble is woefully underrated. I’ve worked at two kinds of companies before: One that only cares about measurable business outcomes, accruing technical debt and blaming engineers when no one wants to work with their codebase, ultimately hurting the product. Another that has staff engineers spending all day on linter configurations and writing seldom-read RFCs while juniors want to ditch Celery for Kafka because the latter is hip.

A glitchy, low-fi medium that turned curation into creation

Symmetric technology democratizes speech. The web, despite all the good it's done is fundamentally assymetric. We need a model that is permissionless and one-to-one.

This from Twitter in 2020. A story about human connection. I've played guitar and sang for 50 years. I rarely play for anyone else. I'm haunted by the feeling that I need to be better before exposing myself to others. (Deep roots to this--story for another day.)

Implementing observability with OpenTelemetry isn't only about the technology. Learn best practices for a successful rollout.

Developments in Networks, Biology, Robotics, and More

Have you ever heard of "framework fatigue"? This term is meant to describe the creep of hundreds of third-party frameworks into development projects. Ten years ago, there wasn't a whole lot of choice out there for Java, my current language of choice, so the average number of third-party libraries included

This article will show you how to make the most of AWS capabilities in the easiest way possible without having to install any software.

Indulge in the ultimate feast of insights with our Foodie's Guide to Data Warehouse vs Data Lake.

The costs of measuring the wrong thing or the right things in the wrong way vastly outweigh the costs of collecting and processing the data.

(Note, there's some important administrative stuff after the newsletter.) I think a lot about the nature of expertise. While I write about all sorts of...

Posted on Monday 6 Nov 2023. 1,324 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.