Technology Commentary

We’re releasing a set of changes that builds on the foundation of our earlier WireGuard performance work, significantly improving UDP throughput on Linux. As with the previous work, we intend to upstream these changes to WireGuard. Our changes improve throughput for HTTP/3, QUIC, and other UDP-based applications through the use of segmentation offloads. UDP throughput over Tailscale increases 4x on bare metal Linux, and pushes past (for now) the in-kernel WireGuard implementation on that hardware. You can experience these improvements in Tailscale v1.54.

Craig digs into the architecture behind a slick IoT data platform including Postgres, the Citus extension, and pg_partman partitioning. Add these together with columnar compression and you've got a fully open source and scalable IoT data stack.

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A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...

IT organizations that invest in observability tools can recover services faster, remediate security events sooner, and identify the impact of incidents better, according to Splunk’s annual observability research.

I used to believe there was a right way to do APIs. I don’t anymore. I know better. I’ve seen too many APIs. I’ve seen too many people get frustrated that we didn’t do the API in the right way. Anybody claiming to have the right way is selling you digital moose diarrhea. The right way to do an API is less about the API, and everything about the process, and who you have involved in producing and consuming the APIs. For technologists it is hard to see the process and the people and it is easy to just focus on the technology—–a mistake I see made over and over in the world of APIs.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Regular container maintenance is like regular dental checkups: Nobody likes doing it, but avoidance makes things much worse.

For DevOps teams, immutable infrastructure offers a transformative approach to organizational security for companies of all sizes.

Originally published July 2015 In 2002, Professor Enrico Zaninotto, Dean of Economics at the University of Trento, gave a keynote at the Extreme Programming conference. It was the clearest technical talk I have ever seen, even though it was delivered by a non-programmer in an unfamiliar language. What set the talk apart was the clarity and depth of the thought behind it.

When I published my recent story about where API gateways might be going, I received pushback the most about my inclusion of code execution as a core platform capability. Which I would agree with in our grandfathers or even father’s API gateway realm, but in a gitops, serverless, edge, and programmable API gateway realty, I see things differently. I see a world where the API gateway is part of the fabric of the web. Our father’s API gateway ended up baked into the cloud, but the next generation of API gateways will just a DNS record away, while enjoying a federated and programmable life serving up goodness (not always).

This directory contains a curated compilation of key players offering APIs for data extraction. I write a brief overview of each service. I also include a link to the official website, pricing, and other relevant information.

Developers, enterprises and vendors are backing vendor-neutral approaches to GraphQL federation.

Kubernetes was designed by Google to operate huge Google properties, and many of us don’t need that sort of scale.

Grafana Labs acquired Asserts.ai to help provide users with easier and more autonomous analysis of metric data.

Effective observability can diminish business interruption, troubleshooting time and engineering burnout while increasing customer satisfaction.

Almost no existing security tools monitor or report on threats to client-side applications. This unaddressed gap raises significant security concerns.

It's been a full year since FTX International and FTX-US collapsed, and the shocking thing is  – there is still no regulated crypto venue i...

Platform engineering is the practice of designing and building toolchains and workflows for self-service capabilities to reduce the complexity of software development.

AI image synthesis is getting more capable at executing ideas, and it's not slowing down.

Optimizing speed, flexibility, and debugging in modern local environments.

Discover how finding optimal solutions enhances your problem-solving skills, strengthens your debugging abilities, and builds a repository of knowledge. Engage with the coding community, self-assess your progress, and boost your confidence as a coder.

For developers frustrated with scaling issues, adoption of framework-defined infrastructure is key to improving the developer experience.

Kubernetes is an increasingly common ransomware target, but immutable backups are the best antidote for attacks on cloud native infrastructure.