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Introducing pg_lake, a set of open-source PostgreSQL extensions from Snowflake that allow you to query, manage, and write to Iceberg tables in your data lakehouse.

A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.

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A short survey of compiler targets like assembly, LLVM, C, JVM and Brainfuck.

Using AI agents, the incident commander isn’t a micromanager but more of a strategist, offloading context gathering and synthesis to focus on high-stakes decisions.

Our industry loves acronyms. In fact, sometimes it feels as if half our job is simply keeping up with them, while the other half is explaini...

Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. Our new research, p…

It’s a word I admit I’ve not really thought of, until in recent weeks it became news that ‘Pebbling’ is the new term for when people share memes and gifs to...

Everybody notices when something big fails—like AWS’s US-EAST-1 region. And fail it did. All sorts of services and sites became inaccessible, and we all knew

Here is a question for you. What is more difficult: predicting the weather thirty days out or what global AI infrastructure spending will be out to the

Most dev teams don't need 47 dashboards or petabytes of logs—they need answers at 2 AM. Explore the evolution from APM to observability.

: When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors

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The screens we've installed everywhere have started to turn against us.

To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what…

In this episode of Version History, the fight to win the music wars.

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

Why organizations must evaluate values, not just features

Returning from vacation turns into a tech horror story: an empty data center database, looming deadlines, and how Replay saved the day.

When code stops being written by humans, does beauty still matter?

The evolution of workload identity: Kerberos to X.509 to SPIFFE to TWI. Why credentials should expire faster than your containers run.

Navigating the messy adoption of AI tools that promise creative freedom but demand new skills

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Every weekend, my good buddy Hiten Shah and I head to The Coffee Movement’s Balboa Street location. They make a nice pour-over. And while it’s about a half-hour&n…

I stumbled on Jen Briselli’s work the other day. She’s a fantastic writer and communicator, distilling the complexity work that we both know and love and making it approachable and unde…

How to build competitive advantage with agentic AI by evolving systems step by step, balancing risk, and designing for agility.

If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker for that last one: [jns], and h…

Automation is no longer a distant idea reserved for large corporations, but it is reshaping daily operations across industries of every size. Tasks once performed manually are increasingly managed by software, algorithms and machines that can process data and complete functions with unmatched speed. Gregory Hold, CEO and founder of Hold Brothers Capital, underscores that