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eBPF stands for extended Berkeley packet filter. Find out everything you should know about Linux eBPF in this comprehensive technology guide.

Beware of temporary alliances.

Provisioning a fleet of servers in 30 minutes is magic, but it is not a requirement that comes up that often for most businesses, David Heinemeier Hansson argues.

2023 was a breakout year for GenAI to help developers build apps. and toolmakers tried to meet developers where they work most.

The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

A very basic scatterplot built with base R and the plot() function. Explanation and code provided.

The use of the phrase “critical mass” in this NYTimes story about the enshittification of Goodreads stopped me in my tracks. Give all of Goodreads’s issues, it might seem easy eno…

SK8 is written for multimedia and authoring tool developers who integrate media components (movies, sounds, still pictures, text, etc.) into a final...

Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime.

Working on vintage computers, electronics, and FPGAs

Here's the hard to find ISO version of Open Genera 2.0 with the patch in a zip file. This requires Tru64 to work (either on a physical or emulated...

You need to rescue the princess with code–but sometimes your code doesn’t work and the princess is a dragon and you’re a fish. Welcome to programming!

The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths

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Here are some proposed questions for interviewing someone for an SRE role. Really, these are just conversation starters to get them reflecting and discussing specific incident details. The question…

In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until it’s too late. Even though at least

Photo by Matthew Lancaster We know that not all of the services in our system are critical. For example, some of our internal services provide support functions (e.g., observability, analytics), wh…

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Go is an 80%-language. That's why.

I was fighting with a home automation this morning and it required me to ping a few high-traffic websites and I got curious looking at the headers that Apple returns: $ curl -I https://www.apple.com/ HTTP/2 200 server: Apple content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block x-content-type-options: nosniff strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade content-security-policy: default-src 'self' blob: data: *.akamaized.net *.apple.com *.apple-mapkit.com *.cdn-apple.com *.organicfruitapps.com; child-src blob: embed.music.apple.com embed.podcasts.apple.com https://recyclingprogram.apple.com swdlp.apple.com www.apple.com www.instagram.com platform.twitter.com www.youtube-nocookie.com; img-src 'unsafe-inline' blob: data: *.apple.com *.apple-mapkit.com *.cdn-apple.com *.mzstatic.com; script-src 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' blob: *.apple.com *.apple-mapkit.com www.instagram.com platform.twitter.com; style-src 'unsafe-inline' *.apple.com cache-control: max-age=582 expires: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:49:53 GMT date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:40:11 GMT x-cache: TCP_MEM_HIT from a23-218-251-35.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (AkamaiGHost/11.3.3-52660090) (-) set-cookie: geo=US; path=/; domain=.apple.com

Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.

Long considered the de facto approach to application architecture for cloud native services, microservices is starting to be refactored by cloud giants such as Amazon and Google.

A comprehensive guide on writing great Tech Specs (🎁 Includes Template!)

Answer by Dave Whittle, former OS/2 Evangelist, Founder of Team OS/2 (1992-1996)