Technology Commentary

Conor Barber explores the evolution of infrastructure, focusing on the shift from YAML configurations to pipelines-as-code, covering modern CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, GitLab, and CircleCI. This talk was recorded at QCon San Francisco 2023.

How Jose Javier Moya's motorcycle analogy reveals the secrets of building a successful software deployment process.

How come people never worry about whether technology scales down to a low number?

Library Extension lets you instantly see book and eBook availability from your local library

Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.

The World Wide Web is extraordinarily wide. But exactly how many domains are there? Let's take a closer look at domain statistics for 2021.

It took $70 and 24 hours for Ryan Castellucci to gain access to 200 MW of capacity.

Buffer is an intuitive social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive social media results.

When I was new to what would become the Internet, most "public" online places were organized by general topic -- for example, the SF-Lovers mailing…

We need more of Richard Stallman, not less par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

So I have been wanting to write up and talk about this for a while, I feel the need to talk about this because too much content is getting removed or kicked off of other platforms due to provider policy changes. By this I mean creators I...

While RAG adds significant benefits by enhancing the specialization and accuracy of generative AI apps, it also brings a set of complex challenges.

Observability and monitoring are complementary rather than alternatives. Monitoring is a vigilant guard while observability is a thoughtful analyst.

Even in the IT industry of tomorrow, human creativity and domain expertise will still be required, as AI-generated code needs human overseers to ensure correctness.

Data governance has a reputation for being difficult, expensive and rarely satisfying. But it’s unavoidable, so why not make it easier?

How to achieve the long-term value of Infrastructure as Code without a big upfront investment and disruption to your application development.

Maestro provides a Workflow as a Service to Netflix's data scientists and information-hungry line-of-business managers.

Many enterprises are reevaluating their cloud migrations after failing to gain the promised cost savings and business agility. Is hindsight 20/20?

The Supergraph Architecture Framework lays the foundation for an operating model and system design that enable federated domain ownership.

Cybersecurity Research and More

Regulation-induced monocultures meet unfortunate but explicable engineering decisions.

Taking a long time to change the ID3 tags on a few MP3 files.

We’re excited to present the Open Science Network initiative, a first step towards open and federated digital spaces designed to push the boundaries of open science and scholarly communication.

Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop culture news stories that date back to 1997. This move coincided with a series of similar decisions from MTV’s parent company Paramount, including a similar move on CMT, and the swift removal of 25 years […]

Learn how to create your own programming language from scratch, covering everything from syntax to interpreters. Perfect for beginners.

How do developers in organizations with no platform teams and no template catalogs create variants of similar configurations?

There are a handful of gadgets that do one thing so well that they become cult classics long after the company that made them has moved on or closed up shop. [This Does Not Compute] takes us throug…

In a fair world, open source and open models should remain a choice, and close source should remain a right.