Technology Commentary

Hybrid work environments and the additional devices that employees must use to remain connected are straining networks like never before.

All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please

Making the rounds for various podcast interviews, Adam Jacob is now laying out his vision for a tool that can transform DevOps. It's the product of years of development distilling what the 45-year-old software engineer has learned from a lifetime spent "building great tools for systems people."

You hear the phrase API platform a lot from vendors across the API space. It is just one of many phrases in the world of APIs that is more a funhouse of mirrors than actually a meaningful set of words we depend upon. Everyone wants to be a platform. At first glance, an API platform is an API-first way for delivering and maintaining the applications a company, organization, institution, or government agency needs to conduct business daily. However, due to the way venture capital fueled startups work today, an API platform has become a way of transferring value from operations by building on “their” platforms, rather than building and strengthening “your” platform as an enterprise organization.

Laugh-In creator George Schlatter finally gives his long-lost show Turn-On the official release it deserves. He loves that the internet noticed his white whale.

Your time matters. 1 hour of efficiency gain per day saves you 1 month per year. I’ll prove it to you: 1 hour per day x 5 days per week x 52 weeks = 260 hours saved per year 260 hours / 8 hours per day = 32.5 work days per year. That’s 1 month you could be closer to promotion, relaxing, or doing whatever the heck you want.

Tejas and Jayhawk, the abandoned Pentium 5 series processors from 2004, are found by Fully Buffered on YouTube, unearthing new information.

This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams of all sizes? A microservice architecture is

CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.

Look for ways to reduce the volume of data you’re sending to storage if you want to reduce the cost of your observability data.

We need someone to contextualize this transition in a way that is less self-serving, less dystopian, filled with empathy, and most importantly — human.

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Originally posted in Bookface (YC forum) as "Shutdown Bookface (kind of): Tandem S19 (virtual office)" tldr: We didn’t find a venture-scale market, perhaps because most people value the autonomy of remote work more than they miss the quick-syncs and high-paced collaboration of in-office work. When our runway ended last

A look at WebAssembly’s advantages, potential hurdles and exciting use cases in action.

One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s.

FusionLayer Inc. has announced a new solution blueprint for automating network instantiation and management processes in the edge clouds.

As the technology landscape continues to rapidly evolve, creating a platform that introduces the correct abstractions for software development and delivery has become an increasingly compelling proposition.

Google's readability process and style guides explained

Indeed, WebAssembly can be thought of as a new type of computer. It possesses an instruction set, similar to a CPU, from which the "assembly" part derives.

In this contributed article, Mayank Mehra, head of product management at Modak, shares the importance of incorporating effective data observability practices to equip data and analytics leaders with essential insights into the health of their data stacks. Mayank also explains why this is becoming increasingly paramount, given the current trend towards modern, complex, and distributed data infrastructures.

Decentralized Mobile App Development is gradually gaining grounds with blockchain based smartphones as well as popularilty of blockchain development.

Guest Post: How to easily enable IPv6 support for apps without it.