It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

We don’t expect tents to serve the same purpose as brick-and-mortar houses—so why do we expect containers to function like VMs?

When code throws or catches an exception, name to communicate rather than regurgitate

I didn't want this to become another abandoned project. By trying to do less stuff, I got more done

There was no big bang – and it could happen to you

The author is Jonathan Levy (U. Chicago) and the subtitle is A History of the United States, noting it is mostly an economic history from a left-mercantilist, nation-building point of view.  So far on p.95 I quite like the book, here is one excerpt: Ironically enough, in some respects Jefferson’s Empire of Liberty came to […]

Open source application framework provider  has launched an open beta for its new Akka Serverless platform, which the company claims is the first to remove the barriers that prevent developers from using serverless to build business-critical applications. Akka Serverless is built on Lightbend’s Akka Platform, a framework for building large-scale distributed applications. The Akka Platform…

W3Techs announced that after many years of steady growth in market share, Nginx is now the most popular web server in the world.

Understanding the 30 elements of value for consumers can help companies gain an edge.

Prankster Brad Heasman painted “Welcome to Perth” in huge letters on the roof of his warehouse that’s visible from planes landing at Sydney International Airport. For those unfami…

Wormhole is a free browser-based tool that allows people to instantly share files with end-to-end encryption using BitTorrent.

How a pair of books with dramatically diverging philosophies came out in the same year—and fittingly, the more upright one became better known.

Leo is now integrated with 15 vendor advisories, giving you real-time access to relevant CVE and CVSS information, directly in your feed.

The right response to feedback is, “thank you.” Or perhaps, “that’s a great point.” Even if it’s not your job to change the system, or not your fault that things…

Continuous feedback requires specific skills, training and a mature understanding of the second way of DevOps concepts and practices.

Norway-based industrial designer Alexander Chappel has completed the fantasy many of us dream of: Organizing all of the contents in the drawers of our workspaces. To do it, he designed an insanely comprehensive system of modular bins that can hold just about anything, and lock into place

Posted on Friday 11 Jun 2021. 340 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

(Added a section on load/store pairs on June 14th) This question probably seems absurd. An unoptimized memcpy is a simple loop that copies...

Narcissists create drama because they want attention. They can’t stand the thought of being ignored. But sometimes ignoring them is not an option. If you must engage with a narcissist, Lifehacker s…

FarmPlast, a/k/a MilkCratesDirect.com has tons of coloring and branding options

Posted on Friday 11 Jun 2021. 340 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Buildings don't have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.

Become a celebrity on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and answer 15 questions to cover the full spectrum of human experience.

A step by step guide to migrate your Postgres databases in production environments with zero downtime

Create your very own Elastic Search Network Search Engine with Merlin!

I’ve been working with Git for some time now, probably 5 years or so. Tried (or been forced to) quite a few other VCS-es before (CVS, SVN…