Technology Commentary

Empowering developers to be ready-to-code defines our purpose now and in the future. To achieve this we are moving the development runtime to the cloud. Cloud development environments (CDE) provide the right abstraction to integrate, customize, automate and optimize the developer experience.

Learn how to use passkeys and fine-grained authorization for better access control in cloud applications, including an example project and a detailed tutorial.

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Lazy programming, contrary to its name, isn’t about cutting corners or being careless. It’s about embracing efficiency, simplicity, and…

On Unix-like systems, we often access documentation with the man command, but sometimes that’s not enough.

Should never impose a specific way of writing applications on developers, instead seamlessly integrate into their workflow and simplify…

The reason Apple needs a cheap MacBook in its lineup is simple: It needs a device in its lineup that costs less than you expect, but does more than it needs to.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

There’s an old saying on how “Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.” The idea being, if you make a product good enough, you won’t need to

I wrote this post for you—product nerd and general fan of the mess—to share with an executive at your company. Product development isn’t their main jam, but they’re whip smart. They’ve watched you make a fool of yourself trying to explain modern product development. They may have said, "Sounds interesting…" but you've received feedback that "the message isn't landing." The books you’ve sent them are lonely in their bookshelf.

What CIOs need to accomplish in their senior positions to make developer lives easier.

In agriculture today, robots and drones can monitor fields, temperature and moisture sensors can be automated to meet crop needs, and a host of other systems and devices make farms more efficient, resource-conscious, and profitable. The use of precision agriculture, as these technologies are collectively known, offers significant advantages. However, because the technology can be costly, it remains out of reach for the majority of the world's farmers.

Hybrid search engines combine them to get the best of both worlds, ultimately delivering the results and webpages that users are looking for.

Developers have better things to do with their time than check on and mess around with these infrastructure settings. That part should be automated.

How LiveRamp is modernizing its privacy-centric data infrastructure for the post-cookie era with Redpanda Cloud.

David Eastman hosts a tech edition of Antiques Roadshow, by looking back at the pre-containers (even pre-Chef!) software tool Capistrano.

When you use Facebook as a publishing and marketing tool you need to remember that it isn't your audience - it belongs to Facebook.

Some call it "Senior Staff", some "principal", others "technical director", but what comes after Staff Engineer? What are the challenges and toolset to handle higher complexity across a larger organization?

A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.

APIs should not surprise: we see what it takes to apply this design principle to the API router for Pavex, a Rust web framework

Explore the intersection of ancient wisdom & modern data architecture in Databricks vs. Snowflake. Discover which one is supreme for your data-driven endeavors.

Discover how a well-planned Makefile can make building C projects easier. By using clear variables, wildcards, automatic variables, and phony targets, see how the Makefile for the gnaro project is easy to understand and use, serving as a simple guide for other developers.

This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.

Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

With request-level isolation, multiple teams can experiment on a single shared cluster.

Twenty-nine percent of engineers surveyed by LeadDev and Swarmia said they don't know enough about Google's much-hyped DevOps success measures to say if they're effective or not.