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How we upgraded a database with well over a billion records without downtime.

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How to enable API requests in Fresh - Xe's Blog

A new DevEx approach to developer experience looks to answer: What should leaders measure and focus on to improve developer productivity?

The basics of API design

We have DevOps, GitOps, DevSecOps, IaC, CloudOps, AIOps … and the list is still growing. But they all move toward one thing: AutoOps.

An inside look at the effects artificial intelligence is having on cybersecurity, including the benefits, opportunities, and challenges.

Developers love automating solutions to their problems, and with the rise of generative AI, this concept is likely to be applied to both the creation, maintenance, and the improvement of code at an entirely new level.

A running service provides runtime data so we can understand a service in the context of its environment, deployment and status.

With contributions from Rynn Mancuso (Honeycomb) and Reese Lee (New Relic). On Thursday, May 25th, 2023, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) End User Working Group hosted its third End User Q&A session of 2023. We had a bit of a gap due to KubeCon Europe, but now we’re back! This series is a monthly casual discussion with a team using OpenTelemetry in production. The goal is to learn more about their environment, their successes, and the challenges that they face, and to share it with the community, so that together, we can help make OpenTelemetry awesome!

Hello, You may already be aware of this, but HiCA is injecting arbitrary code/commands into the certificate obtaining process and acme.sh is running them on the client machine. I am not sure if thi...

Using new techniques, every object in Conway's Game of Life that can be constructed at all, now has a fixed cost of 15 gliders. Here's how.

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Sometimes we lament how boring tech has become. I’ve definitely felt that blogging about tech is less fun than it used to be. So much of the conversation has had to move to market power, antitrust, and content policies as those have become more important than the cool new

Posted on Friday 9 Jun 2023. 1,205 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

Ahead of PulumiUP, a virtual user conference on June 15 dedicated to IaC, presenters talk about how their organizations are enabling faster application development and navigating the challenges of legacy systems.

Seam carving (also known liquid rescaling) as is the most popular technique to crop and rescale images. Learn how it works and how you can implement it.

There is a common thread in the torrent of words that have followed the announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro headset — it portends a dystopian future and social isolationism. Most, if not all, picked…

I have been in Silicon Valley long enough to see it transform from a group of outlier revolutionaries to play-safe career chasers. Recently, I have watched arrivistes who, if not in technology, wou…

“Dust is a problem,” says Dyson — and for the company, a gateway into people’s lives.

Considering the reputation that pagers and beepers had as a tool for drug trafficking, especially in schools. Did it smother a legitimately useful technology?

In the beginning, there were harms. No, not yet. First, there’s an idea, a product, a company. You’ve made an app where people can express themselves in some way (text, images, videos, something el…

To restrict the spread of fake news on social media platforms, researchers designed an algorithm that can flag potential misinformation.

Understand the assembly code generated for various Rust concepts like enums, match, self-passing, arrays, option, and smart pointers. Learn how the Rust language is translated to assembly and how the compiler optimizes the code. Also, discover the performance implications of static and dynamic dispatch in Rust.