Technology Commentary

Data governance has a reputation for being difficult, expensive and rarely satisfying. But it’s unavoidable, so why not make it easier?

How to achieve the long-term value of Infrastructure as Code without a big upfront investment and disruption to your application development.

Maestro provides a Workflow as a Service to Netflix's data scientists and information-hungry line-of-business managers.

Many enterprises are reevaluating their cloud migrations after failing to gain the promised cost savings and business agility. Is hindsight 20/20?

The Supergraph Architecture Framework lays the foundation for an operating model and system design that enable federated domain ownership.

Cybersecurity Research and More

Regulation-induced monocultures meet unfortunate but explicable engineering decisions.

Taking a long time to change the ID3 tags on a few MP3 files.

We’re excited to present the Open Science Network initiative, a first step towards open and federated digital spaces designed to push the boundaries of open science and scholarly communication.

Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop culture news stories that date back to 1997. This move coincided with a series of similar decisions from MTV’s parent company Paramount, including a similar move on CMT, and the swift removal of 25 years […]

Learn how to create your own programming language from scratch, covering everything from syntax to interpreters. Perfect for beginners.

How do developers in organizations with no platform teams and no template catalogs create variants of similar configurations?

There are a handful of gadgets that do one thing so well that they become cult classics long after the company that made them has moved on or closed up shop. [This Does Not Compute] takes us throug…

In a fair world, open source and open models should remain a choice, and close source should remain a right.

And how we are already fostering independent web communities

Scientists at Aston University in the UK have broken the world record for data transmission speed, achieving an astonishing 402 terabits per second (Tbps) over optical fiber....

Coding was a preserve of elites, until BASIC hit the streets.

Software industry has become more driven by profit and unnecessary complexity that by the ability to build and launch innovative products.

Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz, July 5, 2024

I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent’s medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS.The network started off using IPX over coax to a Novell Netware server, the fanciest software we ever owned. IPX was so much easier than TCP/IP. No DHCP and address allocation, it just worked. Eventually the PCs would run Windows, and a Windows NT server took over file sharing over TCP/IP. The business software survived this transition unchanged, though there was more operational overhead. We assigned IPs manually.

We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.

The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics is going on today. It’s an over-the-top presentation meant to draw people into sport. And for the next few weeks, we’ll be seeing people from all across …

We heard a story that after the recent hurricane, a man noted that while the house was sweltering hot because the power was still out, his kids were more anxious for the internet to come back onlin…

The demoscene has provided our community with its artistic outlet since the first computers which could handle graphics, and has stayed at the forefront of technology all the way. For all that thou…