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The idea of using a scripting language to write configuration is brilliant. Here is why.

Last week, we kicked off our Error 402 series on the history (and hopefully future) of web monetization, by talking about much of the framing of what this series will be about. I started it out by …

Users love the speed, security and flexibility of Wasm, but portability will make it the most developer friendly — and give the biggest adoption boost.

Elixir and Erlang are two programming languages that share many features and characteristics, but also have some notable differences. Both…

Solid creator Ryan Carniato explains four more ways to reduce JavaScript code, including three 'radical architectural approaches.'

The decision to move a workload off a public cloud platform is not one to be taken lightly. Each scenario should be evaluated on its own merits.

The conceptual framework focuses on declaring infrastructure components with precision. Implementation details are separated and managed independently.

Moore’s Law is not yet dead, nor is Moore’s Precept, even if AI computes differently. Addressing both is the key to succeeding with the China chip ban.

In this report we present our research on webhook implementations and some Svix data with the goal of increasing the adoption of webhook best practices.

One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's basically the "you're holding it wrong" argument for the c...

A Third Good Question

Suddenly, AI is the new buzzword. And yet, most of us developers still can't get our hands on decent Observability tools, can we?

Robby has a chat with the Author of Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails, Dave Bryant Copeland (he/him/his), about writing software that people understand how it works, the challenges that developers face when trying to retrofit software with more testing, how software engineers should engage with the experienced practitioners who advice them, and so much more. Stay tuned!

OTel Baggage and service meshes like Istio and Linkerd can be used together to implement highly scalable dev, preview and test environments.

Terence Zhao reflects on how Silicon Valley's love of innovation and allergy to looking outward has caused the reinvention of mundane things.

OpenTelemetry removes the need to have multiple instrumentation libraries and streamlines data collection across your observability backend.

With the unknowns of software failure, we want to be able to figure out what's going on just by looking at the outputs: observability.

This blog covers the history and current state of IT Operations Analytics (ITOA), a practice used to improve and manage IT systems.

IT operations analytics (ITOA) is the data-driven process by which organizations collect, store and analyze data produced by their IT services.

In contrast to top-down strategic approaches to data-driven decision-making, grassroots efforts at the operational level can deliver significant resul

Explore the intersection of data and IT optimization, and learn how data-driven insights can power your business efficiency with optimized IT workflows.

GitOps is a process of automating IT infrastructure using infrastructure as code and software development best practices such as Git, code review, and CI/CD pipelines.