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Welcome to The Debrief with Mat Honan, your weekly take on the tech news that really matters, links to stories we love, and the occasional recommendation.

In the MIT Technology Review, Mat Honan makes two points about changes in the world of social media with both Bluesky and Threads

Purpose-built vector databases outperform dual-system setups by unifying the Sparse-BM25 algorithm and semantic search in a single, efficient operation.

The creator of the original open source definition proposes "Post Open" as a new way of supporting creators, maintainers and their projects.

This brief guide will break down why it's essential to upskill your developer teams for a GenAI future – and how you can get started today.

Silicon Valley has always been deeply integrated with Asia; Trump’s attempt to change trade could hurt Silicon Valley more than expected, and also present opportunities to build something new…

Microsoft and GitHub are committed to empowering developers around the world to innovate, collaborate, and create solutions that’ll shape the next generation of technology.

For someone programming in a high-level language like Python, or even for people who interact primarily with their operating system and the software running on it, it can seem like the computer har…

AI-driven testing can ease the burden of UAT by automating user experience assessments.

You must address challenges such as data consistency, load balancing and cost management to successfully scale your cache architecture.

Document-based databases offer considerable advantages for data chunking due to their flexible schemas and ability to store nested data structures.

Businesses must adapt quickly, innovate relentlessly, and ensure that their AI infrastructure can perform in ways that were once unimaginable.

CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.

One of the things that bothers me about how many people use their computers in the modern era is in how they feel like they need to baby them. I think a lot of people feel like they need to baby their phone more than they do. Apple introduced optimized

In the iconic 1990s TV series The X Files, David Duchovny’s FBI agent-paranormal investigator Fox Mulder has a poster on his office wall. It shows a flying saucer in flight, with the slogan &…

The evolution of programming languages can be likened to the journey of human evolution in several fascinating ways

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A client asked me: How does one scale software to handle 1 million websocket connections? At 1000k connections when every client sends only one message per 30 seconds you have to deal with 33333 websocket messages per second. Dealing with that many requests...

By Commands, I mean the Command pattern over the network (when the client sends commands and the server executes them using Invoker). Let’s…

Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz

In this article, we’ll explore cross-platform API compatibility, covering the challenges and best practices for creating APIs.

These hidden codebases reveal the past foundational state of modern computer technology

What is a programming language? That may sound like a dumb question, but it’s not. For some people, a programming language is a specification. It’s a boring document that’s a close sibling to the Terms & Conditions that you ignore and automatically accept. For others, a language is an implementation like a compiler or an interpreter. However, for the vast majority of people, a programming language is more than that. It’s the community.

Both stories are true. Scaling still works. OpenAI et al. still have oversold their promises.

Photo by john mishael Calimoso on Unsplash Given our ever-increasing digital lives, what I am about to say makes little sense — recently released numbers show that there might be a historic slowdow…

Why I chose to use WebAssembly for my analytics tool, and how it could change the future of application development.

Open source may shift and transform, but it’s as strong as ever — and likely to remain so for generations.

Broadcom research reveals that network teams experience increasing levels of network complexity, a shortage of skilled workers, and a lack of visibility into internet and cloud environments.

Learn how the OpenTelemetry community is collaborating to adopt OTel’s "events" construct as a way to effectively model mobile crashes.