Technology Commentary

When you use Facebook as a publishing and marketing tool you need to remember that it isn't your audience - it belongs to Facebook.

Some call it "Senior Staff", some "principal", others "technical director", but what comes after Staff Engineer? What are the challenges and toolset to handle higher complexity across a larger organization?

A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.

APIs should not surprise: we see what it takes to apply this design principle to the API router for Pavex, a Rust web framework

Explore the intersection of ancient wisdom & modern data architecture in Databricks vs. Snowflake. Discover which one is supreme for your data-driven endeavors.

Discover how a well-planned Makefile can make building C projects easier. By using clear variables, wildcards, automatic variables, and phony targets, see how the Makefile for the gnaro project is easy to understand and use, serving as a simple guide for other developers.

This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.

Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

With request-level isolation, multiple teams can experiment on a single shared cluster.

Twenty-nine percent of engineers surveyed by LeadDev and Swarmia said they don't know enough about Google's much-hyped DevOps success measures to say if they're effective or not.

It’s crucial to consider the scalability and reliability of the data layer since it consumes vast resources and affects the entire app's performance.

The Moby Project is an open source project that spun off from Docker. Three major releases are planned for this year.

In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.

Security must be considered an integrated and continuous component of the app development and delivery process.

UK startup Heata is tackling rising energy costs by using server waste heat to cut household bills.

A new WebAssembly survey sponsored by software development company Scott Logic shows growing usage as a runtime for […]

Just like a physical map gives you a bird's eye view of a geographical area, code mapping gives you a high-level view of your code.

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

I’ve written about what I call Tooling for Tooling, basically meta-tools that help people build better developer tools faster and easier. Arguably the most famous and ubiquitous meta-tool is not actually a tool—it’s the Language Server Protocol (LSP). By defining a protocol for language implementations to communicate with editors, the LSP lets language authors write a single LSP server and let their users bring any editor that implements an LSP client.

With MinIO, enterprises are not forced to make a choice. They can literally use FTP and SFTP to move that data into an S3-like data store. It is the principle of AND not OR.

Why Ruby on Rails is not dead yet. A backend developer's love letter to Rails.

The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.

Microservices can be a real pain to deal with; it’s all warm and fuzzy until you reach the moment they need to share data…