Stop Overengineering
Hard Launches vs. Soft Launches
Moving from a product to a service mindset | The GitHub Blog
Thanks to DevOps, cloud computing and other industry trends, many organizations are shifting from a product mindset to a service mindset. Here’s how you can implement a service-led strategy.
You don’t need AI to understand the universe
The pompous posturing of a space cowboy and his desire to understand the universe by starting a data-harvesting AI company, X.ai, I was reminded of this verse from Rumi: “Everything in the universe…
Run Event-Driven Workflows With Amazon EKS and AWS Step Functions - DevOps.com
This post demonstrates a proof-of-concept implementation that uses Kubernetes to execute code in response to an event.
Scale to Zero for AI Workloads
Bcrypt and a Short History of Password Hashing
The following article is a brief history of password hashing and the password cracking software keeping pace with the algorithms.
Some Cloud Native Madness
Some Cloud Native Madness Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT
ISP Column - July 2023
Fearing the Wrong Thing
The only thing to fear is failing to make the transition to AI-assisted programming
Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend
You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows on the horizon. And I have like three jobs, all of which are screaming for my attention. But I cannot
Monitoring is a Pain
And we're all doing it wrong (including me)
I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my
experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring
and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking
this is an easy
Realtalk
Tinyland, a very, very small Dynamicland
Tinyland is a project I invented in order to explore the ideas behind Dynamicland. I’ve been doing a bunch of tiny experiments with a few pals at the Recurse…
In Defense of Slow Feedback Loops
Goodhart's Law is a cruel master.
CYBER: Celebrating the End of the Usable Internet
Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background?
There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.
Why Frameworks Fail
Why are digital documents greener than paper documents?
Regex Isn't Hard - Tim Kellogg
Threads and the Social/Communications Map
Understanding Threads and its threat to Twitter means understanding the current landscape of social media.
Paper Notes: MapReduce – Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters – Distributed Computing Musings
DevOps Has Won, Long Live the Platform Engineer
In another sign of Kubernetes maturity, platform engineering teams are bringing the self-service cloud operating model to users.
A Lifelong ‘Maker’ Tackles a Developer Onboarding Problem
Shanea Leven, CEO of CodeSee, shares how her creative streak motivated her to solve a common legacy code problem in this episode of The Tech Founder Odyssey.
The looming demise of the 10x developer
Tech's most contentious debates end with people talking over each other, but they make way more sense viewed through the lens of inter-generational conflict.
The befuddling “Bluesky is killing it, no one uses Mastodon” narrative
Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App
But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand
When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies
Over the last 15+ years, innovative electronics companies have designed and released thousands of open-source hardware designs, creating a flourishing industry. Open-source hardware companies colle…
Red Hat and the Clone Wars V: Oracle Linux Origins: Dissociated Press
Since Oracle has weighed in about Red Hat’s source changes, it’s time to take a look at the history of Oracle Linux. That takes us back to 2006, the world of enterprise computing, and i…
What's Holding up WebAssembly's Adoption?
WebAssembly trajectory reflects similar cycles that happen with technologies, such as Java, containers. But when will it be ready for the enterprise?
Hey managers – this is why we don’t believe you when you say that you “care about quality”
Let’s start this with a short exercise:Think of all the places you’ve worked at, where you heard “we care about code quality”, “we’re willing to invest the time …