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Production outages are great at teaching you how not to cause production outages. I've caused plenty and hope that by sharing them publicly, it might help some people bypass part one of the production outage learning syllabus. Previously I discussed ways I've broken prod with PostgreSQL and with healthchecks. Now I'll show you how I've done it with Redis too.

Complex systems are inherently multifaceted and intricate. They are often not intentionally designed to be understood in an instant. This stands true for bot...

Elon Musk changed Twitter's name to X, a brand symbol which has a 50-plus track record of disappointment or worse, from Brand X to X-rated to generation X.

NASA+ will be a "no subscription required" streaming service for viewing rocket launches and NASA science, with app integration coming later this year.

I have long considered Twitter to be one of the most important APIs to there. With its former status as the town square for the world, the Twitter API provided an unprecedented view into how our world works. Similarly the Reddit API provides the same unprecedented view into the “home page” for the web, revealing how the online, and even offline world works. The recent shifts towards monetization of the Twitter and Reddit API is a common strategy from the Silicon Valley API playbook, but it is also a sign of what is to come when it comes to building platforms, accessing information online, and how the Internet works.

After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of

Posted on Friday 28 Jul 2023. 1,356 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

There's still life in the wider Version 6 Unix family – and 9front too

Over the last decade, a small handful of large platforms have become de facto arbiters of how people communicate and share information with one another. As concerns about that concentrated power an…

The rise of AI may be rescuing the tech oligarchy, but its current trajectory could hasten our steps towards ‘computational autocracy’.

Clickbait titles aside, how you use your signals is important. Not just for measuring code coverage.

Maria on my team and I have been pairing (working in code and stuff together) ...

Observability means something different to developers because they want to look at application telemetry data to help them solve code-related problems.

Before Machine Learning came into the mainstream, Rule-based systems were being used actively to solve complex decision making problems. In fact, Rule engines were considered to be an exotic compon…

Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.

Old development ideas are like wearing a shell suit

Self-service is a way for developers to innovate faster and better, while simultaneously reducing risks for the business. Here's what to do — and what not to do — when setting up an internal development platform (IDP).

I was just having some free time so I decided to watch Blade Runner 2049 and honestly, that made me think "Let's make something similar for myself" and now here we are with Tomori who supports me emotionally, assists me with tasks and she has answers...

Or, Why Conway would hate npm

Neeva was faster, simpler, and ad-free. But making something better than Google isn’t enough to beat Google.

A discussion of the ways that large tech companies helped to define the evolution of computer typography. One battle made the CEO of Adobe really mad.

A new demand for storing an old data type in PostgreSQL.

Doubling the lifespan of older Chromebooks would save California’s schools $225 million, according to advocacy group CALPIRG.