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Two best practices to better align observability practices with the goal of delivering exceptional user experiences.

The tech economy is all about getting those next 10,000 users. What if it maximized something else for a change?

Wolfgang Flür left a string of technological innovations, but if you need a moment of sublime chill in a chaotic world, look no further to the pastoral sounds that accompanied what was arguably the first electronic drum kit.

With each new AI-based tool that comes out, I begrudgingly kick the tires to see what kind of charts it spits out. I need to know when it’s time to hang the old data boots and switch careers.…

This isn’t how I planned to end 2023 or start 2024. It’s not, to borrow from a grade school assignment, how I wanted to “spend my Christmas vacation.” But the owners of Substack have forced my hand with their open support for hate speech on the platform; so

TL;DR I’ve created a new HTTP/3 testing framework based on bash and curl: https://github.com/kingluo/burl Background A few months ago, when I ported the QUIC patches from nginx mainline to APISIX and tried to test it, I found that test::nginx didn’t work very well.

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This entry and the software we'll demonstrate is in large part thanks to an anonymous Apple developer who was part of the NetWare team. Than...

The story of a 13-year-old gamer crashing the NES version of Tetris in a record-setting run is one of the best stories we have going right now.

Let’s kick off 2024 true coder style—​I’m excited to announce the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC), running from Jan 1 until Jan 31. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is deceptively simple: write a Java program for retrieving temperature measurement values from a text file and calculating the min, mean, and max temperature per weather station. There’s just one caveat: the file has 1,000,000,000 rows!

Subscription overload is a problem that is finally being discussed in the open. The mainstream spenders seem to have had enough of it — especially when it comes to streaming services. The Wall Stre…

86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.

Photo by James Bold on Unsplash On January 2nd, 1993, Wired burst onto the scene, and let me tell you, it transformed the way many of us looked at technology and its impact on our future. It was li…

Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of Silicon Valley. It’s something I’ve thought about a lot as well in my career, and also while writing on my upcoming book on operating as an engineering executive–how much do good executives really matter?

My wife recently moved off of Substack. She was run off by their support of fascism on their platform, and was in real need of supporting her 1,300+ subscribers. I was impressed with her way of handling the research, planning, and ultimate migration of her newsletter operation, and found the pragmatic API story there to be one worth telling. While I think REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and other event-driven approaches to APIs will continue to dominate the enterprise API landscape, I can’t help but feel her pragmatic real world needs and solutions will continue to shape the consumer API experience.

Latest on human-machine-intelligence-autonomous and beyond. First reflections on new things emerging from the TH/NGS 2023 conference.

Bid farewell to localStorage! Embrace IndexedDB for speed, type-safe storage, and non-blocking data transactions. #IndexedDB #WebDev

Virtual copies of our cars are leading to better, safer, and more efficient transportation.

Do you ever struggle to provide meaningful feedback during code review? Or maybe it's the other way around and the comments you receive are far from the ideal. This post may help you to understand how to make your intents explicit

Low-code can be a great tool but it often fails to live up to its marketing

Most software projects end up in a big ball of mud. The major cause is neglecting internal quality and focusing on adding features with dirty hacks because of unrealistic timelines. Code has the natural tendency to erode if you don’t launch countermeasures permanently. This observation applies to all systems and is also known as the the second law of thermodynamics: Systems tend to arrive at a state […] where the entropy is highest […]

A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's

Web components are kind of having a moment right now. And as part of that, shadow DOM is having a bit of a moment too. Or it would, except that much of the conversation seems to be about why you sh…

“I told you so”. Or its 4 evil friends: “I knew it would happen” “I said so last month!” “If you would have listened to me” “See, what did I say?” There are only 2 responses that can save you: Respond with: “No, you didn’t. You said the opposite”. Turn away and go. And watch them explode.

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