A look inside the TVA.

An essay looking at some of the best arguments *against* my personal view--that doing the "real" thing is essential for learning.

Want to stay mentally sharp as you age? Take part in these two (free!) activities.

In today’s episode, we get together with William Jeffries to ask all our most pressing questions relating to GitOps. Tuning in you’ll hear why GitOps uses a pull-based system instead of a push-based system and how GitOps can facilitate better security practices through an improved threat model. William explains when and how to apply GitOps to your project and why he is so excited about the work being done by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. For all this and much more, tune in today as we get to the bottom of what GitOps means for the future of development!

As many of you know from reading The Next Platform, we are firm believers that eventually we will get disaggregated and composable systems that drive up

It seems fitting that among old medical records I found this portrait of Doctor Dave, my comic persona on radio and in print back in North Carolina, forty-five years ago. The artist is Alex Funk, w…

The need for nonbinary code quality and bot commits

If you have ever worked with a profiler, you should be aware that basically everything your CPU does may affect the results.

Why FEMA is denying disaster aid to Black families who’ve lived for generations in the Deep South.

Different IPC methods in microservices like REST API, gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc... which developers should know.

Tonight, the big windows of the new Link trains meet Sean Lennon's dubby remix.

Design Patterns: A quick guide to Observer pattern in Java. Observer design pattern explained – It is a design pattern that helps in solving dependency issues among objects and also defines a one to many relationship among objects so that a state change can be notified to all other dependents one.

Consumerism is largely associated with the desire to acquire material goods. But ever since its dawning at the turn of the 20th century, its ethos has slowly, often imperceptibly, seeped into all aspects of life. Everything, from pot holders and parks, to restaurants and books, to surgeons and professors, can be rated by any individual. […]

How to add eBPF Observability to your product

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A guide for collaborating with networks of people, working together towards a common purpose.

My wife once said that programming must be terrible because you’re always confused and frustrated. I laughed a bit but then I thought about it.

Why is it that they seem to show such peculiar similarities with humans, while at the same time appearing so alien?

The guilt-free air conditioning, called "cooling paper," is made from recyclable paper and doesn't use any electricity.

SSH Fingerprinting is a method to provide DNS records for key fingerprint verification of any client that logs into said machine. Doing this will prevent users from blindly typing ‘yes’ when asked if they want to continue connecting to an SSH host who’s authenticity is unknown. Most of the people just type ‘yes’ without even checking if it’s correct or not, which defeats the purpose of the prompt. The fingerprint records together with DNSSEC will completely bypass the prompt and have SSH verify the fingerprint automatically.

People can tell the week I’ve had by how my office looks like at the end of it. Paperwork, notepads, and books explode outwards from my desk. Like some kind mind expansion blast wave. If by the end of the...

Suppose you’re working on a software system and need to implement user-logins using a userID and password. After a bit of research, you narrow it down to two possible options. Your first option is …