Paul Bakker, Java Platform at Netflix, Java Champion, and Co-Author of "Java 9 Modularity," presented How Netflix Really Uses Java at the 2023 QCon San Francisco conference. Bakker described the evolution of the architecture behind their movie application, introduced the GraphQL Federation, and described how Java is used at Netflix that includes plans to support JDK 21.

Learn why automation is indispensable for efficiently tackling complex and fast-paced incidents in today's digital landscape.

A simple introduction to an essential building block for differential privacy: how to select a value among many.

New Post: ADTs in TLA+ Using Abstract Data Types in TLA+. It's an adaptation of part of my TLAConf talk. It's also a lot more advanced than most of the...

First published February 2009. Some folks say, “But I can’t make big changes in small, safe steps.” I always, always can. Sometimes I can’t think of exactly how right now. Then I take bigger steps & if I fail, I figure out how. You don’t always have to take tiny steps, but they are always an option.

The Linux Foundation, BastionZero, and Docker believe OpenPubkey bolsters zero-trust passwordless authentication.

A real-time solution architecture using Redpanda and Aerospike to support millisecond latency bidding decisions.

Introduction Ever wondered what it’s like to intern as a software engineer at Slack? Picture yourself on the famous Ohana floor—the 61st floor of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco— it is one of many privileges we had as interns. Not only did our experience with Slack’s Data Engineering team let us step onto the …

Hybrid work environments and the additional devices that employees must use to remain connected are straining networks like never before.

All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please

Making the rounds for various podcast interviews, Adam Jacob is now laying out his vision for a tool that can transform DevOps. It's the product of years of development distilling what the 45-year-old software engineer has learned from a lifetime spent "building great tools for systems people."

You hear the phrase API platform a lot from vendors across the API space. It is just one of many phrases in the world of APIs that is more a funhouse of mirrors than actually a meaningful set of words we depend upon. Everyone wants to be a platform. At first glance, an API platform is an API-first way for delivering and maintaining the applications a company, organization, institution, or government agency needs to conduct business daily. However, due to the way venture capital fueled startups work today, an API platform has become a way of transferring value from operations by building on “their” platforms, rather than building and strengthening “your” platform as an enterprise organization.

Laugh-In creator George Schlatter finally gives his long-lost show Turn-On the official release it deserves. He loves that the internet noticed his white whale.

Your time matters. 1 hour of efficiency gain per day saves you 1 month per year. I’ll prove it to you: 1 hour per day x 5 days per week x 52 weeks = 260 hours saved per year 260 hours / 8 hours per day = 32.5 work days per year. That’s 1 month you could be closer to promotion, relaxing, or doing whatever the heck you want.

Tejas and Jayhawk, the abandoned Pentium 5 series processors from 2004, are found by Fully Buffered on YouTube, unearthing new information.

This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams of all sizes? A microservice architecture is

CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.

Look for ways to reduce the volume of data you’re sending to storage if you want to reduce the cost of your observability data.

We need someone to contextualize this transition in a way that is less self-serving, less dystopian, filled with empathy, and most importantly — human.

Feature GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco.  Register Now What is the most far-out, insane thing a smartphone could do? In the final days of 2015, Google’s secretive Advanced Technology and Projects group searched for ways to prove that Project Ara […]

Originally posted in Bookface (YC forum) as "Shutdown Bookface (kind of): Tandem S19 (virtual office)" tldr: We didn’t find a venture-scale market, perhaps because most people value the autonomy of remote work more than they miss the quick-syncs and high-paced collaboration of in-office work. When our runway ended last

A look at WebAssembly’s advantages, potential hurdles and exciting use cases in action.