Technology Commentary

TypeScript ushered in an era of gradual typing, where developers don’t have to choose between the agility of dynamic languages and the type safety of static languages, all while helping avoid the p...

How can you keep your domain logic database-agnostic and still leverage the benefits of DBMS?

Idempotency in the context of REST APIs and event-driven systems and its importance in building resilient and fault-tolerant systems

About ten years ago, I had a Fitbit Flex. Used it for years – I think it finally died circa 2019? Used it for steps and sleep tracking. Steps, I’m not good at, because my job requires m…

IBM announced its Watsonx software development stack back in May, and today it is starting to ship it to customers. We wanted to know exactly what the heck it is. And so we reached out to Sriram Raghavan, vice president of AI strategy and roadmaps at IBM Research, to get a handle on what Watsonx

Thanks to DevOps, cloud computing and other industry trends, many organizations are shifting from a product mindset to a service mindset. Here’s how you can implement a service-led strategy.

The pompous posturing of a space cowboy and his desire to understand the universe by starting a data-harvesting AI company, X.ai, I was reminded of this verse from Rumi: “Everything in the universe…

This post demonstrates a proof-of-concept implementation that uses Kubernetes to execute code in response to an event.

The following article is a brief history of password hashing and the password cracking software keeping pace with the algorithms.

Some Cloud Native Madness Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

The only thing to fear is failing to make the transition to AI-assisted programming

You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows on the horizon. And I have like three jobs, all of which are screaming for my attention. But I cannot

And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is an easy

Tinyland is a project I invented in order to explore the ideas behind Dynamicland. I’ve been doing a bunch of tiny experiments with a few pals at the Recurse…

Goodhart's Law is a cruel master.

There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

Understanding Threads and its threat to Twitter means understanding the current landscape of social media.

In another sign of Kubernetes maturity, platform engineering teams are bringing the self-service cloud operating model to users.

Shanea Leven, CEO of CodeSee, shares how her creative streak motivated her to solve a common legacy code problem in this episode of The Tech Founder Odyssey.