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Optimizing speed, flexibility, and debugging in modern local environments.

Discover how finding optimal solutions enhances your problem-solving skills, strengthens your debugging abilities, and builds a repository of knowledge. Engage with the coding community, self-assess your progress, and boost your confidence as a coder.

For developers frustrated with scaling issues, adoption of framework-defined infrastructure is key to improving the developer experience.

Kubernetes is an increasingly common ransomware target, but immutable backups are the best antidote for attacks on cloud native infrastructure.

The Good & The Bad

What is Kotlin? This article explores how the Android language works, its key features and use cases, and the skills needed to navigate it.

How to combine Terraform, Crossplane and Atlantis to provide the best qualities of each with the flexibility to implement strict Day 2 governance.

What app development teams most often want are tools to enable their speed and autonomy. To not only build, test and deploy with less friction, but to be able to understand what’s going on in their apps.

We will release SQLMate soon, join the waiting list to get updated

A CTO's guide to securing Elixir and Phoenix.

I've been in the software game for almost 30 years professionally, with another 10 dabbling in programming. I'm one of those who think anyone can code, but creating a software product...

Platform engineering takes the load off developers who already face cognitive overload. At KubeCon in Chicago, Release's CEO told how his company's tooling seeks to make complexity simpler.

Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in use today, but it has evolved in multiple directions over its more than 60-year history. Two of the more prominent descendants, Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp (or Elisp), are fairly closely related at some level, but there is still something of a divide between them. Some recent discussion in the emacs-devel mailing list have shown that some elements from Common Lisp are not completely welcome in Elisp—at least in the code that is maintained by the Emacs project itself.

Going forward, the project will go with a different release model, based on two release types: experimental and standard.

Read how we built a flexible, high-performance columnar compression mechanism for PostgreSQL to add scalability to our favorite database.

It's easy to interpret any criticism of the hacker ethic—which is what I'm about to do—as a kind of assault.

Kind of high level, but good summary of the key players / market share in observability from Barclays (Observability Industry Review: Volume 7, October 2023. Sorry, no public link). Would be intere…

Mention the words "maintenance programming" to a group of developers and they'll, to a man (or woman), recoil in horror. Maintenance programming is widely viewed as janitorial work. But maybe that's an unfair characterization. In Software Conflict 2.0 : The Art and Science of Software Engineering [http://www.amazon.com/

Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.

Data science is a relatively new term for a relatively old discipline. Essentially, it is data analysis, particularly for large data sets. It involves techniques as wide-ranging as statistics, comp…