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I was asked recently for my thoughts on a wonderful article about software correctness, human convenience, and flossing, and I ended up dumping out an entire...

Why we undervalue front-end expertise in the web development world.

x86 giant eyes outside cash injections, IPO for Programmable Systems Group within three years

Trying to manage software multitenancy to the same level as infrastructure multitenancy results in high spending on instrumentation and increases code complexity.

If you need to handle lots of incoming requests, you should manage the incoming traffic by balancing the load across different servers. You should consider adding a Load Balancer: it’s a layer of abstraction that handles requests, availability, and security in a centralized place.

Vitria Technology's Andrew Colby discusses why AIOps, AI and ML are key capabilities to deliver performance and reliability customers expect.

And Apache Flink is Confluent's secret weapon to get developers on board.

Using SQL to generate bulk data for Postgres table

Unpacking the Business Source License (BSL), its implications in the open source realm, Hashicorp's shift, and the proposed Open Charter solution

How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens

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Julia Evans is a software engineer and writer based in Montreal who loves investigating weird bugs and helping people learn how computers work. She runs Wiza...

Its data platform, powered by Redpanda and Apache Flink, enables a new wave of applications by putting real-time data at developers’ fingertips.

A story of Gcore’s Public API team walks you through obvious and unexpected advantages developers get from using an up-to-date software stack.

Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky

Observability engineers play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance and security of complex IT systems.

While making my way around the API landscape for the last thirteen years I have seen that many of the words we use describe APIs are the same, but the meaning of these words will vary depending on who you are and the role you play in the great API hustle. I began this API journey like most, focused on the technology of APIs. I quickly learned that while technology plays an important role, the most important dimension of this great API hustle is more about the business of APIs. I find the business of APIs to be interesting but full of some of the most unimaginative people who can’t (or won’t) see the bigger, more meaningful picture. While I started writing about what I consider to be the politics of APIs back in 2014, I’d say it is the last remaining aspect of this API hustle that interests me in 2023—-making it the top narrative here on API Evangelist moving forward.

Learn six powerful examples of how generative AI can transform outdated applications, automate code generation, and enhance debugging.

Using Regex to query Postgres database with use cases

Checkly's Jonathan Canales explains why treating testing and monitoring as separate operations is costing you money.

Learn how to improve your OpenAPI spec by avoiding common pitfalls.

The company just doesn't want to have to rely on the nearby energy grid to run its cloud services.

Here’s a a line I liked from episode 461 of Todd Conklin’s PreAccident Investigation Podcast. At around the 8:25 mark, Conklin says: ….accidents, in fact, aren’t preventable…

Back in August, The New York Times ran a profile of Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC. It’s hard to overstate the role that this Taiwan-based semiconductor company plays in the industry. If y…