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In this post, we will describe how we built an eBPF-powered agent to monitor networking traffic within our Kubernetes clusters.

I want to share with you a quick way to make illustrations on your website work in both light and dark mode: .dark .invert-on-dark { filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg); } Try it! Toggle dark mode in the navigation bar and see the cover photo swi...

Metrics, traces and logs don't make much sense when we're looking at Terraform. So what does?

A successful and continuous testing strategy demands a careful balance between various types of tests. This article explains how.

I got a new Pixel 7 last week and have started the tedious process of moving over to a new phone. One of the more painful chores in moving from one phone to another is moving the Google Authenticator app and all of the two factor codes to the new phone. My partner Nick told […]

I have mentioned how to build a simple API gateway in the previous article, I will implement an API Gateway and two microservices with unit…

The halting problem is why we can't have nice things.

Identity security is undeniably the need of the hour. However, CISOs may need to help convince their executives. Here’s what they need to know.

These tools mean more development work can get done, and IT can spend more time on other priorities.

By changing the way software is developed and maintained, generative AI could allow engineers to spend more time brainstorming and developing, and spend less time on troubleshooting.

Existential Comics is an extremely nerdy webcomic about philosophers, written and drawn by Corey Mohler, a software engineer(!). My favorite Existential Comics strip is titled Is a Hotdog a Sandwic…

This transformation envisions streamlined, automated processes as products optimized for user experience and efficiency.

Without clear documentation, organizations risk confusion, duplication of efforts, and inefficient data storage. Making documentation a priority ensures a seamless workflow.

Cloud-based point-of-sale startup turned to Couchbase Capella for real-time data synchronization capabilities, always-on availability.

Over the past however long it's been since my last infrastructure blog post, I've been doing a ton of work across various organisations and my own personal setup to get things up to a more acceptable standard. Rather than do small posts for each infrastructure overhaul, I've decided to bundle it all into one, to hopefully demonstrate how each experience feeds into the other and vice versa. For ease of reading, I'll break each infrastructure into its own section and let you jump between them at your leisure.

Thirteen years ago, Eric Raymond

'The solution to the surveillance economy seems to be more surveillance' Vivaldi boss tells El Reg

How outliers can trick the optimizer into the wrong plan

Back in 2009, anynone with a Nokia could have a personal website running on their own phone. Sadly this amazing piece of tech was never widely adopted. Today’s phone are far more powerful than those Nokias both in performance and battery backup and still we don’t see anyone running a server on their phone. Why? I think this was never implemented on phones because there’s no incentive for large corporations to work on something like this.

A powerful algebra system for data scientists

Supavisor is a scalable, cloud-native Postgres connection pooler. We connected a million clients to it to see how it performs.

It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....

Explore the unexpected connection between mass tech layoffs and the rise of GraphQL.

Primitives, such as int and boolean, may have been useful in the early days of programming, but they lack sophistication and elegance. It’s…

Discussing the dumb thing CNET did in an effort to please the Google Gods: Don’t cull old news content to improve your SEO ranking. That’s your history!