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At the conceptual level, a message is an exchange of information between a sender and one or many receivers. Message exchange has been an important part of computer programming and architectural design since the early days of mainframe computers.

Everything's on fire! Oh that's fine, that's normal.

In this post, you'll discover how I went from knowing almost nothing about web development to being able to tackle a full web project on my own.

A lot of Lisp code lurks inside big codebases, so it's smart to get familiar with the language.

Apache NIFI is an open-source, cross-platform, powerful, and scalable tool to manage transformation, data routing, and system mediation logic.

We’re in the midst of a major upswing in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). More and more organizations have realized just how critical these technologies are to their ability to remain competitive and they’re investing accordingly, with the vast majority of AI and ML budgets and staffs growing. This was…

Japanese auto giant Toyota is working on a new-age hydrogen vehicle. When the words Toyota and Hydrogen are in the same sentence, the hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai comes to mind. Still, the Mirai i…

If we going to treat infrastructure as code, shouldn’t infrastructure engineers have access to the same tools that make software engineers productive and even the same languages? That’s the theory behind Pulumi, which has just released version 3 of its open source platform. What founder and CEO Joe Duffy, calls a "cloud engineering platform" is…

With the goal of bringing more productive discussions on this topic into focus and understanding which types of multicloud capabilities are worth pursuing, this series concludes with a look at multicloud through the lens of traffic portability. Traffic Portability Multicloud traffic portability means you can shift traffic between environments dynamically. If you have geographically dispersed…

I first came across the application programming interface (API) directory, ProgrammableWeb, in September 2005, shortly after it was launched by John Musser. At the time, the directory had just 54 listings. How times have changed, because nearly 16 years later ProgrammableWeb lists over 24,000 APIs. It’s an indication of how pervasive APIs have become on…

The Gateway API, formerly known as the Services API and before that Ingress V2, was first discussed in detail — and in-person — at Kubecon 2019 in San Diego. There were already many well-known and well-documented limitations of Ingress and Kubernetes networking APIs. The Gateway API was intended as a redo of these APIs, built…

One of the great things about SaaS applications is that users in the platform automatically have access to any available software updates. Yet, having a beta program requires a separate environment, creating a potential challenge for users and development teams. In this context, having a tool where you can control features and flag certain users…

If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. And not just any glacier, but one that predates the

Discussion on emerging technologies with the Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase & Co, Senior Director of Engineering at Mulesoft, and Co-Founder & CTO at HackerRank.

When normal computer users fall into the nasty habit of recycling passwords, the result is most often some type of financial loss. When cybercriminals develop the same habit, it can eventually cost them their freedom.

GitHub has long been a proponent of Web Components. Here's how we use them.

Noise is a belittled threat that disrupts the functioning of people, animals, even plants.

What is the power of storytelling? Expressing yourself through writing brings about both physical and mental health benefits. Learn more about it here.

Answer (1 of 15): I wrote this in a comment to Ian Joyner’s answer. Here it is as an answer. Ian used a great quote by Al Perlis (the first Turing Award winner) about “Computer Science”: > "I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it st...

Project LFX is a home platform for steerable projected interfaces.

The big benefits of little changes.

NPR, which turned 50 yesterday, used to mean National Public Radio. It still does, at least legally; but they quit calling it that in 2010. The reason given was “…most of our audience —…

In previous posts (for example, here), I have discussed what seems to me an extremely worrisome form of legal moralism wherein people essentially invoke “community” as a moral good in order to inst…

Vancouver is a city whose past and future are squeezed into a tight present because the city is still very new.

I’ve been a beekeeper for many years. I love the honey, but I love watching the bees even more. They are a fascinating example of a natural, decentralized system.

A “vehicle forensics kit” can reveal where you’ve driven, what doors you opened, and who your friends are.