Technology Commentary

In agriculture today, robots and drones can monitor fields, temperature and moisture sensors can be automated to meet crop needs, and a host of other systems and devices make farms more efficient, resource-conscious, and profitable. The use of precision agriculture, as these technologies are collectively known, offers significant advantages. However, because the technology can be costly, it remains out of reach for the majority of the world's farmers.

Hybrid search engines combine them to get the best of both worlds, ultimately delivering the results and webpages that users are looking for.

Developers have better things to do with their time than check on and mess around with these infrastructure settings. That part should be automated.

How LiveRamp is modernizing its privacy-centric data infrastructure for the post-cookie era with Redpanda Cloud.

David Eastman hosts a tech edition of Antiques Roadshow, by looking back at the pre-containers (even pre-Chef!) software tool Capistrano.

When you use Facebook as a publishing and marketing tool you need to remember that it isn't your audience - it belongs to Facebook.

Some call it "Senior Staff", some "principal", others "technical director", but what comes after Staff Engineer? What are the challenges and toolset to handle higher complexity across a larger organization?

A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.

APIs should not surprise: we see what it takes to apply this design principle to the API router for Pavex, a Rust web framework

Explore the intersection of ancient wisdom & modern data architecture in Databricks vs. Snowflake. Discover which one is supreme for your data-driven endeavors.

Discover how a well-planned Makefile can make building C projects easier. By using clear variables, wildcards, automatic variables, and phony targets, see how the Makefile for the gnaro project is easy to understand and use, serving as a simple guide for other developers.

This essay explores the connection between Erlang's process supervision, state management and durable execution.

Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

With request-level isolation, multiple teams can experiment on a single shared cluster.

Twenty-nine percent of engineers surveyed by LeadDev and Swarmia said they don't know enough about Google's much-hyped DevOps success measures to say if they're effective or not.

It’s crucial to consider the scalability and reliability of the data layer since it consumes vast resources and affects the entire app's performance.

The Moby Project is an open source project that spun off from Docker. Three major releases are planned for this year.

In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.

Security must be considered an integrated and continuous component of the app development and delivery process.

UK startup Heata is tackling rising energy costs by using server waste heat to cut household bills.

A new WebAssembly survey sponsored by software development company Scott Logic shows growing usage as a runtime for […]

Just like a physical map gives you a bird's eye view of a geographical area, code mapping gives you a high-level view of your code.

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.