Technology Commentary

Over the past however long it's been since my last infrastructure blog post, I've been doing a ton of work across various organisations and my own personal setup to get things up to a more acceptable standard. Rather than do small posts for each infrastructure overhaul, I've decided to bundle it all into one, to hopefully demonstrate how each experience feeds into the other and vice versa. For ease of reading, I'll break each infrastructure into its own section and let you jump between them at your leisure.

'The solution to the surveillance economy seems to be more surveillance' Vivaldi boss tells El Reg

How outliers can trick the optimizer into the wrong plan

Back in 2009, anynone with a Nokia could have a personal website running on their own phone. Sadly this amazing piece of tech was never widely adopted. Today’s phone are far more powerful than those Nokias both in performance and battery backup and still we don’t see anyone running a server on their phone. Why? I think this was never implemented on phones because there’s no incentive for large corporations to work on something like this.

A powerful algebra system for data scientists

Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native Postgres connection pooler. We connected a million clients to it to see how it performs.

It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....

Explore the unexpected connection between mass tech layoffs and the rise of GraphQL.

Primitives, such as int and boolean, may have been useful in the early days of programming, but they lack sophistication and elegance. It’s…

Discussing the dumb thing CNET did in an effort to please the Google Gods: Don’t cull old news content to improve your SEO ranking. That’s your history!

It can create or destroy. Yes, we're still talking about IT infrastructure...

Company transitions to BSL, and fundies are furious

Welcome to the coding couch. We hope you sleep well

Catalog, a new feature on incident.io's platform, can give teams the dynamic contextual awareness needed to effectively and efficiently respond to incidents when they occur.

Pixar's president offers some good reasons for why 'Elemental' cost $200 million to produce.

Introducing nixexpr: Nix expressions for JavaScript - Xe's Blog

Though promising simplicity and an answer to the IT skills gap, it can be more of an illusion than boosting your team's ability to deliver real value.

A look at how to find the best route to gain efficiency in delivery times as well as in loading the trucks.

The Unbearable Lightness of Code Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

RSS is a universal, open, algorithm-free news feed you can have for free. Silicon Valley giants treat it like a secret.

Bryan Carney: Who Needs Meta or Google for News? Use ‘Really Simple Syndication’ So what crushed the promise of RSS and its designed-in accessibility to everyone — otherwise known as “open standard”? And how can we revive that version of RSS in an era when the big platforms are flexing their

Posted on Friday 11 Aug 2023. 792 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

When complexity leaps are on the table, there’s usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplement…

GitHub has spent two years researching and slowly rolling out its multifactor authentication system. Soon it will be mandatory for all 100 million users—with no opt-out.