This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers
hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working
on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches!
Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams of all sizes? A microservice
architecture is
CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.
What Would Steve Jobs Have Thought of Our Industry Now?
We need someone to contextualize this transition in a way that is less self-serving, less dystopian, filled with empathy, and most importantly — human.
Complicated. Weird. Beautiful! The secret Google project to put an aquarium full of tiny, wiggly water bears inside your phone
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tldr:
We didn’t find a venture-scale market, perhaps because most people value the autonomy of remote work more than they miss the quick-syncs and high-paced collaboration of in-office work.
When our runway ended last
Why Building a Platform May Not Be Your Best Bet - Exploring Five Critical Reasons : @VMblog
As the technology landscape continues to rapidly evolve, creating a platform that introduces the correct abstractions for software development and delivery has become an increasingly compelling proposition.
Indeed, WebAssembly can be thought of as a new type of computer. It possesses an instruction set, similar to a CPU, from which the "assembly" part derives.
Data Observability, Essential for your Modern Data Stack - insideBIGDATA
In this contributed article, Mayank Mehra, head of product management at Modak, shares the importance of incorporating effective data observability practices to equip data and analytics leaders with essential insights into the health of their data stacks. Mayank also explains why this is becoming increasingly paramount, given the current trend towards modern, complex, and distributed data infrastructures.
While technology is the part many eyes will gravitate toward in operationalizing AI, the people and process elements are actually the most challenging.
Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path - The Next Platform
Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. Because now Intel wants to spin out the FPGA business that is a small but bright spot in its datacenter and edge computing businesses. It never made a lot of sense that EMC, the maker of traditional storage arrays
My work brings me though a lot of software correctness techniques, things like type theory, test-driven development (TDD), and formal methods. The surrounding communities all have the same problem: they can’t get people using these techniques. They all ask “Don’t people care about correct software?” To which the insiders usually answer “programmers don’t care about correctness, they just care about shoveling out garbage to make money!”
I’ve heard this from every single community I’ve explored, many of which are in direct conflict with each other.