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Concerned about myths regarding the efficacy of adopting the Rust programming language? Who you gonna call? Google's Rust Myth Busters.

Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.

Improve accuracy with a combination of semantic and keyword search

Anchoring my experiences in the wisdom of Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design, I explore the confluence of software design and the finesse of good writing. Yes, ChatGPT wrote this description, but the article is entirely my own work.

Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any c...

In this post, we'll deep dive into some interesting attacks on mTLS authentication. We'll have a look at implementation vulnerabilities and how developers can make their mTLS systems vulnerable to user impersonation, privilege escalation, and information leakages.

Service ownership and process automation are critical to enabling responders to manage incidents and reduce time spent on manual tasks and escalation.

Generative AI is good at capturing, storing and sharing necessary context for determining the severity of incidents, root-cause analysis and postmortems.

Platform engineering is not just about toolchains or internal developer platforms. At its core, it's a discipline that can increase developer productivity.

A Journey Through Gaming Graphics Evolution

Google Distinguished Engineer Russ Cox, tech lead for the Go programming language, has promised that “there will not […]

Software security should start at the beginning of the SDLC, making sure even your containers are secure, Don MacVittie advises.

When systems are designed with observability and explainability in mind, adapting and troubleshooting software becomes more effective.

The pursuit of massively distributed databases that can scale horizontally into infinity has led to an explosion of specialized databases, with literally dozens of differing data models and entire products released for hyper-specific use cases.

System Initiative is making the digital twin tool it developed to manage DevOps workflows available under an open source Apache 2.0 license.

Shifting from tedious denormalization jobs and allowing data to be queried directly can significantly improve efficiency and flexibility.

It’s time to regain control over your alerting chaos. We’re going to talk about alerting principles and practices that can help you achieve a well-organized, healthy, and efficient alerting system for your projects!

Despite their questionable utility, terminal multiplexers have skyrocketed to fame in the tech world over the last decade.

Secure GitHub Actions with new research showing high-risk practices and get expert tips to prevent overly permissive workflows in your CI/CD pipeline.

Design this bad should sicken developers – but it's the rest of us who end up feeling queasy

Analysis of the usability of WebTV, including user interface guidelines for designing cross-platform Web pages that are considerate of WebTV users