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I think it’s safe to say Kubernetes has “won” the cloud mindshare game. If you look at the CNCF Cloud Native landscape (and manage to not go cross eyed), it seems like most of the projects are some…

While the potential is staggering, AI development confronts a significant challenge: actually getting it into products.

24 hours is a long time

What is an API Gateway ? Benefits and Downsides of API Gateway

You can use this guide to get up to speed with Kubernetes as a developer. From its very basics to more intermediate topics like Helm charts and how all of this affects you as a dev.

What the **** does that mean?

Utilising the CPS transformation for code maintainability

It should shock no one to learn that Open AI's newer, better language model is an improvement over the old one, but if you aren't an active user of any of this newfangled AI stuff, it can be easy to lose track of just how much better things are getting and how quickly. If you subscribe to GPT Plus, ChatGPT will also implement the ReAct pattern for requests it thinks can be formalized, which is one way to mitigate hallucinations.

Emilia David for The Verge: I Love My GPT, but I Can’t Find a Use for Anybody Else’s Though I’ve come to depend on my GPT, it’s the only one I use. I’ve had the exact same experience. I fully expected that the GPT store

Discover how to reduce MTTR to boost service reliability. Find out how parallel scheduling from Checkly can directly minimize mean time to repair.

Simple websites are better than beautiful ones. I'll repeat that for the folks in the back. Simple websites are better than beautiful ones. Let me be clear what I mean by a simple website. I don't mean a Wordpress site with a minimalist theme. I also don't mean a Substack …

Loose coupling is a design principle in software engineering that promotes independence and flexibility between components or modules of a…

Someone is wrong on the Internet; he said that all code is technical debt, and I refute that.

We asked tech professionals what their tech stack looked like in 2023 and what they would be adding to it in 2024.

Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore Porter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA. There are two general approaches to decision-making. O…

Introduction to the technique of refactoring and online catalog of refactorings

Developers inherently dislike reading fellow developer’s code. Most of the time due to different levels of understanding, and other times due to disparate code that has fixed hundreds of ad-h…

This is my closing talk ( video ) from the GopherConAU conference in Sydney, given November 10, 2023, the 14th anniversary of Go being lau...

Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he's learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.

The this-way-up symbol on cardboard boxes looks like Knuth's up-arrow notation. What both mean.

A mathematical algorithm, greek politics and a bunch of priests…this is what you need for the most beautiful paper I have ever read. This week I am bringing you a paper about the Paxos distributed…Read more of The most beautiful computer science paper I have ever read →

Vint Cerf is one of the most recognizable figures in the pantheon of Internet figures – and as he enters his ninth decade of a remarkable life, one of its most accomplished. I had the honor o…

Code is written once, but read many times. Given this truth, it…

A 2024 plea for lean software

How Intel screwed over a standards body in the midst of giving computer users one of the most resilient technologies around.