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We think we do, but in fact every web developer will happily sacrifice simplicity to the first shiny thing promising them relief from the mildest of ailments.

Observability agents can consume many resources. To address this, they are or can be monitored themselves to ensure they do not excessively consume resources, thus preventing unnecessary costs.

The 2020s will witness the infusion of GenAI into almost every aspect of computing, both personal and enterprise. But the AI revolution bears some intriguing parallels to the computing world of the 1990s.

Facebook’s new “Link History” tactic reminds me of an old data-siphoning trick: Create something of nominal value to convince consumers to give up the goods.

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Wasm’s advancements will help us build better, more secure and more portable applications with the benefit of truly shared functionality.

AI usage will surely drive additional network traffic, but for most enterprises it likely won’t require a major overhaul of the entire data center network.

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Two best practices to better align observability practices with the goal of delivering exceptional user experiences.

The tech economy is all about getting those next 10,000 users. What if it maximized something else for a change?

Wolfgang Flür left a string of technological innovations, but if you need a moment of sublime chill in a chaotic world, look no further to the pastoral sounds that accompanied what was arguably the first electronic drum kit.

With each new AI-based tool that comes out, I begrudgingly kick the tires to see what kind of charts it spits out. I need to know when it’s time to hang the old data boots and switch careers.…

This isn’t how I planned to end 2023 or start 2024. It’s not, to borrow from a grade school assignment, how I wanted to “spend my Christmas vacation.” But the owners of Substack have forced my hand with their open support for hate speech on the platform; so

TL;DR I’ve created a new HTTP/3 testing framework based on bash and curl: https://github.com/kingluo/burl Background A few months ago, when I ported the QUIC patches from nginx mainline to APISIX and tried to test it, I found that test::nginx didn’t work very well.

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This entry and the software we'll demonstrate is in large part thanks to an anonymous Apple developer who was part of the NetWare team. Than...

The story of a 13-year-old gamer crashing the NES version of Tetris in a record-setting run is one of the best stories we have going right now.

Let’s kick off 2024 true coder style—​I’m excited to announce the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC), running from Jan 1 until Jan 31. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is deceptively simple: write a Java program for retrieving temperature measurement values from a text file and calculating the min, mean, and max temperature per weather station. There’s just one caveat: the file has 1,000,000,000 rows!

Subscription overload is a problem that is finally being discussed in the open. The mainstream spenders seem to have had enough of it — especially when it comes to streaming services. The Wall Stre…

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Photo by James Bold on Unsplash On January 2nd, 1993, Wired burst onto the scene, and let me tell you, it transformed the way many of us looked at technology and its impact on our future. It was li…

Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of Silicon Valley. It’s something I’ve thought about a lot as well in my career, and also while writing on my upcoming book on operating as an engineering executive–how much do good executives really matter?

My wife recently moved off of Substack. She was run off by their support of fascism on their platform, and was in real need of supporting her 1,300+ subscribers. I was impressed with her way of handling the research, planning, and ultimate migration of her newsletter operation, and found the pragmatic API story there to be one worth telling. While I think REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and other event-driven approaches to APIs will continue to dominate the enterprise API landscape, I can’t help but feel her pragmatic real world needs and solutions will continue to shape the consumer API experience.