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Whether you call it imposter syndrome or simply your jerkbrain acting up, we all have our moments of feeling like a fake and that, someday, everyone will find out. And at it turns out, one of the professions most prone to imposter syndrome is software development.

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Evolution from a traditional software deployment infrastructure to a modern, containerized approach

Pondering the way that physical objects, like newspapers and photos, degrade over time, and why digital objects won’t fade in exactly the same way.

A look inside the world of alternative command line environments, or "opinionated prompt systems," such as Liquid Prompt and Oh-My-Posh.

While technology has gotten us into this climate change mess only technology can get us out of it. Only the technium (our technological system) is “big” enough to work at the global scale needed to fix this planetary sized problem. … Continue reading →

Modern Kubernetes-based infrastructures require observability, not just monitoring and optimizing application performance.

A Firefly survey suggests usage of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools is evolving rapidly in the cloud computing era.

A walk through the pros and cons of using cloud and on-premises storage as well as a third, best-of-both-worlds option: cloud-adjacent storage.

A (rather long) view on the configuration-compliance-coherence trust problem in IT

Tech and creativity once had a symbiotic relationship. As generative content matures, it feels like they’re starting to diverge. That’s bad for creative people.

High-impact engineers 10X the value they create by working on the most impactful features for users and aggressively decreasing the time it takes to get things out to users.

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Standard Webhooks is an initiative to have more industry-standard guidelines for webhooks. Here, we review it and showcase examples.

Forget death and taxes. The only certainty on the web is change. Ste Grainer takes a brief look at the history of the web and how it has been constantly reinvented. Then he explores where we are no…

Quiz #21 was: An organization’s critical online service has a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99% uptime. Over a quarter, the service experienced several

Uber developed an innovative caching solution, CacheFront, for its in-house distributed database, Docstore. CacheFront enables over 40M reads per second from online storage and achieves substantial performance improvements, including a 75% reduction in P75 latency and over 67% reduction in P99.9 latency, demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing system efficiency and scalability.

The ANY_VALUE aggregate function: pick any value from the group

The siren song of domain-specific languages I’ve seen a lot of engineering teams mistakenly believe that ...

Cloud optimization involves ensuring that you're not overprovisioning–or underprovisioning–your cloud computing resources.

A hybrid cloud is the future of cloud-native solutions for complex enterprise applications and data. Here's why.