Technology Commentary

Standard Webhooks is an initiative to have more industry-standard guidelines for webhooks. Here, we review it and showcase examples.

Forget death and taxes. The only certainty on the web is change. Ste Grainer takes a brief look at the history of the web and how it has been constantly reinvented. Then he explores where we are no…

Quiz #21 was: An organization’s critical online service has a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99% uptime. Over a quarter, the service experienced several

Uber developed an innovative caching solution, CacheFront, for its in-house distributed database, Docstore. CacheFront enables over 40M reads per second from online storage and achieves substantial performance improvements, including a 75% reduction in P75 latency and over 67% reduction in P99.9 latency, demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing system efficiency and scalability.

The ANY_VALUE aggregate function: pick any value from the group

The siren song of domain-specific languages I’ve seen a lot of engineering teams mistakenly believe that ...

Cloud optimization involves ensuring that you're not overprovisioning–or underprovisioning–your cloud computing resources.

A hybrid cloud is the future of cloud-native solutions for complex enterprise applications and data. Here's why.

How can we introduce standardization and best practices to achieve more automation in our infrastructure deployment pipelines?

Google Chrome is deprecating all third-party cookies in 2024. How will this affect your Okta application, remember me features, and Okta Sign-In Widget?

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Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Ethan Zuckerman Social media has always supported authenticity—both subjective and objective. At the same time, social media constantly undermines authenticity. How people and platforms resolve that paradox is a key dynamic in the digital public sphere. From the start, social media promised a more authentic public sphere. Content could flow freely and […]

Spoiler: I assumed that I would just code all day and that's it. Well, I was very wrong!

A pair of recent controversies around the tech-publishing giant Automattic raise an important question: Do we have to worry about the future of WordPress?

The internet of things (IoT) is a network of connected smart devices providing rich data, but it can also be a security nightmare.

It's proven! Learn how and why an investment in developer experience — DevEx — is an investment in innovation and profit.

Keep a real-time eye on running your eBPF programs with open source bpftop.

Writer CEO May Habib says its semantic graphing approach is an alternative to the chunking process of RAG using vector databases.

The USA ONCD (Office of the National Cyber Director) is joining the chorus of people demanding that developers […]

Kubernetes API solutions stand out for their ability to cater to the specific demands of diverse lines of business.

Book notes on "Continuous Discovery Habits" by Teresa Torres

The VGHF is saving video game history from the basement

In the world of microservices, message brokers are like the party storytellers, ensuring messages reach their destination smoothly without everyone shouting over each other. They include publishers, consumers, and topics for organizing messages, offering flexible distribution methods like point-to-point and publish/subscribe. While REST APIs are common, message brokers provide perks like guaranteed message delivery and better system performance 🚀

Paul Bakker discusses Netflix’ use of Java, emphasizing the use of microservices, RxJava, Hystrix and Spring Cloud.

Striving for excellence is not just a matter of professional pride; it is necessary to prevent the endless cycle of suffering.

A look at what it takes to make automatic dependency updates not just a feature but a cornerstone of successful software development.