Technology Commentary

What is simple is not always easy. Rich Hickey’s talk, “Simple Made Easy,” talks about being intentional in choosing simplicity. The word…

Elixir is a functional programming language that allows building scalable and very resilient applications. We use it at Capchase coupled…

Some time ago we encountered a production issue: One of our Elixir applications suddenly started responding intermittently. After a quick…

Exploration of various scenarios to enable forming of a scalable Client-Server architecture

The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too. What a win! But beyond celebrating their good sense, I th...

Scale’s Signature technology offers a workaround around endpoint-compatibility issues ahead of when — if ever — component modules are standardized.

Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time doing other, less optimal work?

Why Tcl? GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Chris James, London - Software Engineer

Htmx is a JavaScript library for sending AJAX requests, triggering CSS animations, and more. See what htmx can do with simple HTML elements.

One of the longest running schisms in programming is that of static vs dynamic typing. I've heard a million arguments from both sides throughout my entire career, but seen very few of them ever convinced anyone of anything. As rationalizations masquerading as reason rarely do in matters of faith. The rider will always justify the way o...

Streaming services have a long way to go when it comes to UX design.

Make Fast Calls to Microservices Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

This post presents the new headless Chrome version and shows the main browser fingerprint differences that exist compare to the old headless Chrome.

On March 22, 2023, thousands of researchers and tech leaders—including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak—published an open letter calling to slow down the artificial intelligence race. Specifically, the letter recommended that labs pause training for technologies stronger than OpenAI's GPT-4, the most sophisticated generation of today's language-generating AI systems, for at least six months.

# Episode 151 – Dave Thomas & Brian Mitchell In this special episode of ElixirTalk we are joined by Dave Thomas and Brian Mitchell where we continue a discussion that we had at EMPEX NYC this year as

Worried about data security in a multi-cloud environment? Cyberstorage could be the solution you've been looking for.

If you’re not a REST expert, you probably use the same HTTP codes over and over in your responses, mostly 200, 404, and 500. If using…

This page intentionally left blank has a long history. I thought it was an IBM thing from the 1960s, but I was off by a thousand or more years. There are good reasons for a page to be blank. Foldin…

How screen protectors became a part of our lives, and the weird reason some early cathode ray tubes needed them.