By Phil Norman Code at Scale At Google, tens of thousands of software engineers contribute to a multi-billion-line mono-repository . This re...

IBM's SAA and CUA brought harmony to software design… until everyone forgot

IoT telemetry at scale? MQTT, Zilla, and Kafka can make it happen.

The Evolution of Database Schema Management

I wrote the analysis of “useless sugar” features of Ruby for two months, and I regret nothing.

The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.

I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution

Jerod is back with another “It Depends” episode! This time he’s joined by Kris Brandow from Go Time and they’re talking all things API design. What makes a good API? Is GraphQL a solid choice? Why do we do REST wrong? And WTF does HATEOAS mean, anyway?

The Observability Query Language Standard working group seeks to establish a unified standard for observability languages.

Commissioned: The adage that you can’t manage what you can’t measure remains polarizing. Some leaders lean on analytics to improve business processes and outcomes. For such folks, aping Moneyball is the preferred path for execution. Others trust their gut, relying on good old-fashioned human judgement to make decisions. Regardless of which camp you IT leaders […]

In this era of heightened data sensitivity, responsible development of generative AI is not just a legal requirement — it's an ethical imperative.

I continue to be bullish on AI and that skepticism extends to the “AI-focused” products that are coming out this year. Case-in-point: a pin…

To watch an online video you can either stream or download it. Find out the differences and when to use each in a look at streaming vs. downloading.

What are the major tech trends set to redefine the industry in 2024? Michael Cote unveils his key predictions.

In the last 25 years we have delivered on our mission to make DNS more dependable and trustworthy. These are our plans for the next five years.

When it comes to the digital world we might need a device that reverses the usual charge of wants. Instead of a small thing in your pocket that gives you exactly what you want to see at any minute, this … Continue reading →

I took a pretty rough swipe at GIMP last week, and rather than letting sleeping dogs lie, I’d like to explain my POV on the popular open-source image editor.

Ingenuity has been flying above Mars, off and on, for nearly three years.

Critics say the latest batch of new gadgets at CES 2024 will invade our privacy, steal our personal data and fill up landfills as soon as they break.

When I finished reading this (must-read) wonderful profile of Bell Labs, the singular most iconic research institution of the modern era, I was left wondering — just because you invent the fut…

Thanks for reading Micah Learns! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is the first of several papers I’ll be writing about from SOSP’2023 (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles). Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications

One of the established and most popular programming languages is the C programming language. It is relatively easy to learn, and highly practical. Maybe surprisingly, the C programming language keeps evolving, slowly and carefully. If you have GCC 13 or LLVM (Clang) 16, you already have a compiler with some of the features from the … Continue reading C23: a slightly better C

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AVIF is a recent file format that, at the time of this article, has gained support in Microsoft Edge, thereby achieving significant browser support. !Important: We are no longer in the dark ages, the…

The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

IntroductionIf you're only using gRPC at the application layer, I believe studying the examples on the gRPC official website is sufficient. However, when planning to extensively use gRPC within a team

Ever been in a situation where you landed a software engineering job with a particular tech stack, mastered it, switched to another company with a different stack, nailed that too, and then found yourself in a third company that used the original stack? Now, you suddenly sense that your hard-earned acumen in that initial stack has not only atrophied over the years but also a portion, or all of it, has become irrelevant, making it a bit of a struggle to catch up with the latest changes.