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Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.

Data observability aims to alert you to your data’s reliability and health while also delivering the insights required to resolve any issues.

Who knew grouping things could bring so many benefits.

An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable - juspay/hyperswitch

Oxide set out to build a private cloud rack system that retains the advantages of public cloud and doesn't sacrifice on infrastructure control, efficiency, and flexibility.

What if CI pipelines had less boilerplate, faster runtimes, and could run from our laptops?

Start by capturing business requirements, then add architectural design that puts security in the hands of engineers who understand the domain logic.

There's a lot of pressure these days on journalists and content providers to use generative AI to create their work. We won't. Here's our AI policy.

I stopped using Twitter over a year ago, as soon as Elon Musk took control of the place. I don’t miss it – it was already a pretty toxic place, and my tenure at The Recount, a political…

Too often, FinOps initiatives focus too much on the "Fin" and not enough on the "Ops." Controlling cloud spend requires a less reactive approach.

Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about …

An internal developer portal is a great solution for managing API complexities in a microservices architecture.

Infrastructure as Code has addressed many traditional challenges — offering automation, consistency, and scalability — but it also has its own set of complexities.

The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.

Write a list of the test scenarios you want to cover Turn exactly one item on the list into an actual, concrete, runnable test Change the code to make the test (& all previous tests) pass Optionally refactor to improve the implementation design Until the list is empty, go back to #2

Learn how the Strategy Pattern in C# provides flexibility! Let's explore an example of the strategy pattern in C# along with the pros and cons of using it!

I spent years studying to accomplish my goal, and I failed.

TLDR: A demo speaks louder than a thousand words. You can connect to an online file sandbox created by me and my team via browserling.com/browse. You can download and run suspicious files in this sandboxed environment without risking the security of your own computer. ## File Sandbox – What Is It? A file sandbox is a...

One of the services that the Amazon cloud provides is called S3, which is a data storage service. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where S3 had a major outage, and Amazon’s explanation of the …

A subjective and practical guide on what to do if you want to create data visualizations yourself (including lots of exercises and examples!)