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A look at how distributed tracing can help when testing systems before production.

The Best MP3 Encoder is LAME When it comes to MP3 encoding, there is one de-facto leader in the open-source industry: LAME. It’s been given the attention of software and audio engineers for years which shows in the extensive features it comes with. If you want to encode audio data to MP3 with professional performance and quality, you either use LAME or something built on top of it. If you’re a programmer and want to encode audio to MP3, you likely search your language’s ecosystem to piggyback off someone else’s work.

Hyperscript is a newer language for handling common scripting needs on the JavaScript front end. You can use it by itself or in tandem with HTMX.

I realized recently that I had now passed 30 years on the internet, having obtained my first internet access in August of 1993 — the same year that many consider to be the year that the internet be…

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

There are some important things to consider when creating a continuous infrastructure pipeline similar to that for continuous delivery of applications.

Jake posts on X (formerly Twitter): I taught myself the lost art of cable lacing from a NASA document to make a pretty box! I designed and 3D printed a custom socket to tighten banana plugs, and a …

Our dependence on CI has expanded far beyond its original scope, turning into a velocity bottleneck for serious development teams.

Microsoft says Skype "remains a great option." But it has lost daily users in the past three years, while other services, including Microsoft Teams, have grown.

Don MacVittie asks, 'Do you really need all the functionality of a platform, or will a single tool suffice?'

In this 3-part webinar series, Isovalent developers tell the story of how and why eBPF was created, how eBPF works and how Cilium was born.

The photos appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily make out the name on the back of the mystery computing device. "Pluto Switch," it said.

For a decade, Google has been building the networking equipment that runs its online empire in secret. Today, it's raising the curtain.

What your vendor tells you about compression and deduplication capabilities may not be accurate. Learn why.

Findings show that code quality is better across the board and developers felt more confident, too.

Because they approach data from different perspectives, GraphQL can be a complementary technology to REST.

Unlock the power of real-time decision making with inference AI as we guide you through the complexities of model deployment, using the Gcore platform as your roadmap.

Lots of updates this week! First of all, my talk Is Software Engineering Real Engineering is now available online! It's the video version of the crossover...

AI can help you learn—but it needs to do a better job

Some time ago I wrote about video codecs and implementing GPU-accelerated video decoding in a DirectX application. The reason was that I found that the information may be out there, but it is diffi…

Deep dive into the problems video streaming sites face and how they can architect their infrastructure to manage the load.

Feature flagging and dynamic configuration tools are core to any software engineering team. They could be doing a much better job.

The barrier to entry has been creeping up steadily, and it's getting worse faster.