Technology Commentary

The greatest benefit of shifting right is the ability to see what software will actually look like once deployed while developers are still shaping it.

WebAssembly modules encompass different programming languages implemented inside them, so the ways garbage collection is used for these languages vary.

IT departments—amid a transformative landscape driven by GenAI—are witnessing the decline of standalone firewalls, the convergence of networking and security goals through Zero Trust principles, and a user-focused operational shift.

Discover the evolution of cloud-computing in the post-serverless era, with a shift towards hyper-specialized vertical multi-cloud services and a trend moving from Infrastructure as Code to Composition as Code. Microservices are being redefined in the cloud landscape and upcoming cloud services are set to be rich in constructs.

Book notes on "The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change" by Tanya Reilly

The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High Context Triad.” Those are Layers of context, Navigating ambiguity, and Tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. One of my background projects, probably happening in 2025 or 2026 after I’ve finished my nascent project on engineering strategy, is publishing a second edition of Staff Engineer, and I intended these three articles as supplements. I’ve really enjoyed writing these pieces, because the first on context layers is really necessary to establish the vocabulary to even talk about the other two effectively.

One of my early questions about ChatGPT was, “Will it have a positive second derivative?” Will the use of ChatGPT accelerate the rate at which ChatGPT improves? This is a useful question to ask of any new technology. If a technology has a positive second derivative,…

The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.

In a thread on the various socials, my friend necopinus pointed out that my essay on AI, A Camera Not An Engine, effectively maps the generative potential we’ve discovered latent in AI models of hu…

A series about hive minds, Borgs, egregores, and other emergent beasts

A speculative series on a future unified theory of AI and crypto

Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality

Computer science is about everything except I/O and application development is about nothing but I/O.

What O’Reilly Learning Platform Usage Tells Us About Where the Industry Is Headed

How Shards Transforms Game Development by Streamlining Execution, Enhancing Concurrency, and Turbocharging Performance

By Phil Norman Code at Scale At Google, tens of thousands of software engineers contribute to a multi-billion-line mono-repository . This re...

IBM's SAA and CUA brought harmony to software design… until everyone forgot

IoT telemetry at scale? MQTT, Zilla, and Kafka can make it happen.

The Evolution of Database Schema Management

I wrote the analysis of “useless sugar” features of Ruby for two months, and I regret nothing.

The web home of Eric A. Meyer, CSS guy; and his wife Kathryn, doctor of nursing.

I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution