Then you should consider the importance of network automation. With the right network automation solutions, you can drastically improve the performance,

A fresh way to think about building web applications.

Only a few short lines can have a massive, global impact. In 1997, Ethan Zuckerman broke the Internet — by inventing the pop-up ad. He was working for Tripod.com, an…

A couple of years ago, my former manager David Denton forwarded me a recorded presentation by Mary Poppendieck, a leading Agile software development expert and co-author of the popular book “…

SRE has come a long way since its early days, and there are some exciting times ahead in 2023. Here are some things we'd like to see.

David Flanagan has fixed 50+ Kubernetes clusters as part of his YouTube series, 'Klustered.' He shared what he learned at Civo Navigate.

With the release of Lens 6, the underlying open source project was repurposed, breaking an unwritten rule for open source projects.

So, this is an mirror of a post from John Carmack. Recently I learned that his articles on #AltDevBlog are no longer acessible. So, in order to archive them, I am re-posting them here. These articles are definitely good reads and worth to be preserved. Probably everyone reading this has

For almost two years now, the vast majority of our backend code was written in Rust (aside from a little bit of Python). I love Rust, it’s by far my favorite language. I find myself missing match in pretty much every other language I go to. However, if I

We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict, because painful experience has taught us, that some or all of the causes of that failure will be surpri…

The world is full of ambitious middle managers seeking to brand themselves as “innovative”, or maybe even “visionary”. You might think their strategy would be to use personal experience to collect promising innovation ideas over the course of their careers, ideas they then try to implement when they finally have sufficient resources.

More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.

The benefits that come from serverless computing can be lost if you have to spend your time provisioning hardware for your database.

Vue.js creator Evan You explains how Vue 3 is different from Vue 2, and in particular how its use of the Virtual DOM has evolved.

There are a lot of discussions if GPT is really intelligent or just repeating the patterns from its training set. The problem is, for practical purposes that might be a bad question to ask.

Reddit users are pushing the limits of popular AI chatbot ChatGPT – and finding ways around its safeguards.

A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have been performed. At first, it’s too minuscule to notice. But the average deploy latency grow…

It's finally time to tackle navigation in the Composable Architecture. We'll port the Inventory app we first built to understand SwiftUI navigation, which will push us to understand what makes the architecture "composable," how it facilitates communication between features, and testing.

Who or what has superintelligence manipulating humans right now?  Babies and dogs are the obvious answers, cats for some.  Sex is a topic for another day. Let’s take dogs — how do they do it?  They co-evolved with humans, and they induced humans to be fond of them.  We put a lot of resources into […]

What Goes Wrong

To say that AI-generated art is controversial would be something of an understatement. The appearance last year of free tools like Stable Diffusion has not just thrown the world of art in…

On a recent episode of You’re Wrong About, Sarah Marshall delivered a crisp summary of how the 24-hour news cycle came to be. This led me to realize that many among us do not remember when ne…